- security issue, or some "oh, that's not good" issue. In short,
- something critical.
- - No "theoretical race condition" issues, unless an explanation of how
- the race can be exploited.
- - It can not contain any "trivial" fixes in it (spelling changes,
- whitespace cleanups, etc.)
- - It must be accepted by the relevant subsystem maintainer.
- - It must follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches rules.
+ security issue, or some "oh, that's not good" issue. In short, something
+ critical.
+ - No "theoretical race condition" issues, unless an explanation of how the
+ race can be exploited is also provided.
+ - It cannot contain any "trivial" fixes in it (spelling changes,
+ whitespace cleanups, etc).
+ - It must follow the Documentation/SubmittingPatches rules.
+ - It or an equivalent fix must already exist in Linus' tree. Quote the
+ respective commit ID in Linus' tree in your patch submission to -stable.