Re: [PATCH net-next v6 2/8] ipc, msg: Account msg_msg allocations with GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT again

[Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)]

On 10/11/26 00:37, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Oct 2026 20:14:20 -0700 Kees Cook <kees@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Anything with Fixes: will end up in stable, so I just leave off the
>> stable CC these days.
> 
> -stable maintainers have been asked to Not Do That for mm patches. 
> Other subsystems are doing the same.
> 
> I don't know how they determine whether something is an mm patch.  A
> patch which covers do-do-that and dont-do-that parts of the tree is
> likely to be mishandled.
> 
> So yeah, add that cc:stable to reduce the possibility of mistakes.

There's also this from the list of pain points at
https://lwn.net/Articles/1099594/

    Kroah-Hartman: subsystems that do not add CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
tags to patches, but which still expect the stable team to pick up the
important fixes anyway. The stable maintainers are overwhelmed as it is and
are not doing that.