From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "Jari Ruusu" <jariruusu@users.sourceforge.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
"Sebastian Andrzej Siewior" <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@kernel.org>,
"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"Andy Lutomirski" <luto@kernel.org>,
"Dave Hansen" <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>,
"kvm ML" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Radim Kr?má?" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
"Rik van Riel" <riel@surriel.com>, x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.14 121/146] x86/fpu: Disable bottom halves while loading FPU registers
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 11:54:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181206105407.GH19891@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181205190020.GO29510@zn.tnic>
On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 08:00:20PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 06:26:24PM +0200, Jari Ruusu wrote:
> > That same race appears to be present in older kernel branches also.
> > The context is sligthly different, so the patch for 4.14 does not
> > apply cleanly to older kernels. For 4.9 branch, this edit works:
>
> You could take the upstream one, amend it with your change, test it and
> send it to Greg - I believe he'll take the backport gladly.
>
> :-)
Yes, that's the easiest way for me to accept such a patch, otherwise it
gets put on the end of the very-long-queue...
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-06 10:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20181204103726.750894136@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-12-04 10:49 ` [PATCH 4.14 069/146] x86/bugs: Add AMDs variant of SSB_NO Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-12-04 10:49 ` [PATCH 4.14 070/146] x86/bugs: Add AMDs SPEC_CTRL MSR usage Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-12-04 10:49 ` [PATCH 4.14 071/146] x86/bugs: Switch the selection of mitigation from CPU vendor to CPU features Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-12-04 10:50 ` [PATCH 4.14 121/146] x86/fpu: Disable bottom halves while loading FPU registers Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-12-05 16:26 ` Jari Ruusu
2018-12-05 19:00 ` Borislav Petkov
2018-12-06 10:54 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2018-12-21 16:23 ` [PATCH v4.9 STABLE] " Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2018-12-21 16:29 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-12-21 16:38 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
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