Re: Request security fix in -stable (upstream 2c33645d366d)

[Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 09:21:41AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 06:40:59AM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > > Upstream commit:
> > > (commit) 2c33645d366d13b969d936b68b9f4875b1fdddea
> > > (subject) perf/x86: Honor the architectural performance monitoring version
> > > 
> > > A second commit fixes a trivial build issue introduced by the above commit:
> > > (commit) 6d6f2833bfbf296101f9f085e10488aef2601ba5
> > > (subject) perf/x86: Fix undefined shift on 32-bit kernels
> 
> > Usually it is recommended to CC the patch's author and maintainers of
> > the code in question because they help with backports of fixes, and they
> > are the ones who know best if there's a risk of regression or if a fix
> > is incomplete for certain versions, so they definitely have their word
> > to say. I'm CCing Imre and Peter who were involved in this fix.
> > 
> > Also we're usually careful about not backporting to older kernels
> > something which is not yet in more recent ones. Greg is traveling with
> > limited connectivity this week, so we may have to wait for him to come
> > back. The bug is not urgent anyway since it was fixed one year ago :-)
> 
> No objections from my pov. they're fairly simple patches, therefore I
> would not suspect any trouble backporting this, but if there is, do
> holler.

OK, thank you Peter!

Willy