WTF: patch "[PATCH] ima: Make arch_policy_entry static" was seriously submitted to be applied to the 5.2-stable tree?

The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 5.2-stable tree.

I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst.

I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to <[email protected]> and let me know why this patch should be applied. Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be seen again.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 68f2529078f97dd4dc7f01bc4d495cf5f5814363 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: YueHaibing <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 21:40:32 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] ima: Make arch_policy_entry static

Fix sparse warning:

security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c:202:23: warning:
symbol 'arch_policy_entry' was not declared. Should it be static?

index 1cc822a59054..cd1b7281244e 100644
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ static struct ima_rule_entry secure_boot_rules[] __ro_after_init = {
 };
 
 /* An array of architecture specific rules */
-struct ima_rule_entry *arch_policy_entry __ro_after_init;
+static struct ima_rule_entry *arch_policy_entry __ro_after_init;
 
 static LIST_HEAD(ima_default_rules);
 static LIST_HEAD(ima_policy_rules);