Re: [stable] [PATCH] x86 ptrace: fix PTRACE_GETFPXREGS error

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 12:11:04PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > > since the original fix is already upstream, i've applied the delta 
> > > > patch below. Should we still do this for v2.6.26 or can we defer it 
> > > > to v2.6.27? As ptrace is the only user of this facility for now this 
> > > > would be an identity transformation AFAICS and the v2.6.26 release 
> > > > is very close.
> > > 
> > > I don't think there's a problem with 2.6.26 either way.  I agree that 
> > > the user_regset internal API does not matter much before 2.6.27.
> > 
> > okay - i've queued it up in tip/x86/ptrace for now.
> > 
> > > My patch alone applies to 2.6.25, which is why I CC'd it to stable. I 
> > > think applying that (and not takada's patch) to stable-2.6.25 would be 
> > > best.
> > 
> > i think Greg already queued the original fix up for v2.6.25, as per the 
> > commit notifier below.
> 
> Yes I did queue that one up, but it looks different from Roland's 
> original patch in this thread.

yes, but as discussed in this thread, both patches are fine in principle 
as far as the regression goes.

	Ingo