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From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: "moderated list:ARM/FREESCALE IMX / MXC ARM ARCHITECTURE"
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
Subject: Re: Request to backport "Documentation: Document arm64 kpti control"
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 10:47:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <406719bd-1d6f-d19e-fae4-4da3f0f76138@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200127155106.GA668073@kroah.com>

On 1/27/20 7:51 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 08:52:33AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 08:03:25PM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>>> Hi Greg, Sasha,
>>>
>>> Could you backport upstream commit
>>> de19055564c8f8f9d366f8db3395836da0b2176c ("Documentation: Document arm64
>>> kpti control") to the stable 4.9, 4.14 and 4.19 kernels since they all
>>> support the command line parameter.
>>
>> Hey Florian,
>>
>> We don't normally take documentation patches into stable trees.
> 
> Normally we do not, but this is simple enough I've queued it up for 4.19
> and 4.14.  Are you sure it is ok for 4.9?  If so, Florian, can you
> provide a backported version of it?

Yes, I am positive this parameter is relevant for the stable-4.9 tree, too:

git show linux-stable/linux-4.9.y

static int __init parse_kpti(char *str)
{
        bool enabled;
        int ret = strtobool(str, &enabled);

        if (ret)
                return ret;

        __kpti_forced = enabled ? 1 : -1;
        return 0;
}
early_param("kpti", parse_kpti);

I will be sending you a targeted patch in a short while.
-- 
Florian

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-27 18:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-26  4:03 Request to backport "Documentation: Document arm64 kpti control" Florian Fainelli
2020-01-26 13:52 ` Sasha Levin
2020-01-27 15:51   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-01-27 18:47     ` Florian Fainelli [this message]
2020-01-29 19:16     ` Sasha Levin
2020-01-31  3:33       ` Florian Fainelli

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