Re: Patch "x86/cpu: Deal with broken firmware (VMWare/XEN)" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, akataria@vmware.com, bigeasy@linutronix.de,
	boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, ciwillia@brocade.com,
	m.v.b@runbox.com, peterz@infradead.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	stable-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch "x86/cpu: Deal with broken firmware (VMWare/XEN)" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 16:04:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161122150458.ymn4pteiiip5zk3s@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <147972578225225@kroah.com>

On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 11:56:22AM +0100, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> 
> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> 
>     x86/cpu: Deal with broken firmware (VMWare/XEN)
> 
> to the 4.8-stable tree which can be found at:
>     http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> 
> The filename of the patch is:
>      x86-cpu-deal-with-broken-firmware-vmware-xen.patch
> and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.
> 
> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.

Yes, please remove it from the stable queue for now. We'll have a fix ontop
first and we'll submit both then as the check

	if (apicid != c->initial_apicid) {

fires on pretty much everything-AMD now.

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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