From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:43210 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752003AbdLJLgD (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Dec 2017 06:36:03 -0500 Subject: Patch "locking/refcounts: Do not force refcount_t usage as GPL-only export" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree To: keescook@chromium.org, airlied@gmail.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, ivan@ludios.org, tmb@mageia.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: , From: Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 12:36:10 +0100 Message-ID: <151290577024283@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled locking/refcounts: Do not force refcount_t usage as GPL-only export to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: locking-refcounts-do-not-force-refcount_t-usage-as-gpl-only-export.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From b562c171cf011d297059bd0265742eb5fab0ad2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kees Cook Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 17:24:54 -0800 Subject: locking/refcounts: Do not force refcount_t usage as GPL-only export From: Kees Cook commit b562c171cf011d297059bd0265742eb5fab0ad2f upstream. The refcount_t protection on x86 was not intended to use the stricter GPL export. This adjusts the linkage again to avoid a regression in the availability of the refcount API. Reported-by: Dave Airlie Fixes: 7a46ec0e2f48 ("locking/refcounts, x86/asm: Implement fast refcount overflow protection") Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Ivan Kozik Cc: Thomas Backlund Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/mm/extable.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/x86/mm/extable.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/extable.c @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ bool ex_handler_refcount(const struct ex return true; } -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ex_handler_refcount); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(ex_handler_refcount); /* * Handler for when we fail to restore a task's FPU state. We should never get Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from keescook@chromium.org are queue-4.14/locking-refcounts-x86-asm-use-unique-.text-section-for-refcount-exceptions.patch queue-4.14/locking-refcounts-x86-asm-enable-config_arch_has_refcount.patch queue-4.14/locking-refcounts-do-not-force-refcount_t-usage-as-gpl-only-export.patch