From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:50254 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932546AbeCLQej (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Mar 2018 12:34:39 -0400 Subject: Patch "x86/mm: Remove stale comment about KMEMCHECK" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree To: jannh@google.com, bp@alien8.de, brgerst@gmail.com, dvlasenk@redhat.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, hpa@zytor.com, jpoimboe@redhat.com, luto@kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, tglx@linutronix.de, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: , From: Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 17:34:14 +0100 Message-ID: <15208724543964@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled x86/mm: Remove stale comment about KMEMCHECK to the 4.14-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-mm-remove-stale-comment-about-kmemcheck.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From 3b3a9268bba62b35a29bafe0931715b1725fdf26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jann Horn Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 18:50:39 +0100 Subject: x86/mm: Remove stale comment about KMEMCHECK From: Jann Horn commit 3b3a9268bba62b35a29bafe0931715b1725fdf26 upstream. This comment referred to a conditional call to kmemcheck_hide() that was here until commit 4950276672fc ("kmemcheck: remove annotations"). Now that kmemcheck has been removed, it doesn't make sense anymore. Signed-off-by: Jann Horn Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180219175039.253089-1-jannh@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c @@ -1252,10 +1252,6 @@ __do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, un tsk = current; mm = tsk->mm; - /* - * Detect and handle instructions that would cause a page fault for - * both a tracked kernel page and a userspace page. - */ prefetchw(&mm->mmap_sem); if (unlikely(kmmio_fault(regs, address))) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jannh@google.com are queue-4.14/x86-mm-remove-stale-comment-about-kmemcheck.patch