Comment 2 for bug 1996071

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bugproxy (bugproxy) wrote : Comment bridged from LTC Bugzilla

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2022-11-10 08:55 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #6)
> So commit aa127a069ef312aca02b730d5137e1778d0c3ba7 "s390/boot: add secure
> boot trailer" was just upstream accepted with v6.1-rc3.
> And it got tagged for upstream stable with:
> "Cc: <email address hidden> # 5.2+"
> That means that it will ideally automatically land over time in all Ubuntu
> kernels, down to focal's 5.4.

Unfortunately the automated stable backport to v5.4, v5.10, and v5.14 failed because the source file that is modified by this patch was moved around:

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> But since this bug is marked as critical, the patch is relatively short,
> traceable and s390x-specific, I'll go ahead and submit this patch for Jammy
> and Focal ahead of upstream stable.

In addition to the work you plan, I could provide an adjusted stable backport for the upstream targets for which automatic backport failed. Would this help get this patch into any more Ubuntu versions?