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Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Avoid code patching freed init sections
From: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
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> > For stable I've marked this as v4.13+ since that's when we refactored
> > code-patching.c but it could go back even further than that. In
> > reality though, I think we can only hit this since the first
> > spectre/meltdown changes.
>=20
> Which means it affects all maintained stable trees because the
> spectre/meltdown changes are backported.

Yep we this this on SLES12 SP3=20

Mikey