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

From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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 18:08:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161122170807.GB20022@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161122150458.ymn4pteiiip5zk3s@pd.tnic>

On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 04:04:58PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 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.

Now removed, thanks for letting me know.

greg k-h