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From: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: "Zhang, Ning A" <ning.a.zhang@intel.com>,
	"tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"stable@vger.kernel.org" <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: backport Rewrite sync_core() to use IRET-to-self to stable kernels?
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 10:00:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180124090032.GA30613@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180123072533.GA17566@kroah.com>

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 08:25:33AM +0100, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 07:06:29PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 6:59 PM, Zhang, Ning A <ning.a.zhang@intel.com> wrote:
> > > hello, Greg, Andy, Thomas
> > >
> > > would you like to backport these two patches to LTS kernel?
> > >
> > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h?h=v4.14.14&id=1c52d859cb2d417e7216d3e56bb7fea88444cec9
> > >
> > > x86/asm/32: Make sync_core() handle missing CPUID on all 32-bit kernels
> > >
> > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h?h=v4.14.14&id=c198b121b1a1d7a7171770c634cd49191bac4477
> > >
> > > x86/asm: Rewrite sync_core() to use IRET-to-self
> > >
> > 
> > I'd be in favor of backporting
> > 1c52d859cb2d417e7216d3e56bb7fea88444cec9.  I see no compelling reason
> > to backport the other one, since it doesn't fix a bug.  Greg, can you
> > do this?
> 
> I'll work on this after this round of stable kernels are released.

Now applied, thanks.

greg k-h

      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-01-24  9:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-23  2:59 backport Rewrite sync_core() to use IRET-to-self to stable kernels? Zhang, Ning A
2018-01-23  3:06 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-01-23  7:25   ` gregkh
2018-01-24  8:19     ` Zhang, Ning A
2018-01-24  9:01       ` gregkh
2018-01-25  2:22         ` Zhang, Ning A
2018-01-25  6:50           ` gregkh
2018-01-24  9:00     ` gregkh [this message]

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