From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:56460 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751807AbdLUOkR (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Dec 2017 09:40:17 -0500 Subject: Patch "x86/head: Remove confusing comment" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree To: jpoimboe@redhat.com, boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, jgross@suse.com, jslaby@suse.cz, luto@kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, tglx@linutronix.de, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: , From: Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 15:39:32 +0100 Message-ID: <1513867172152154@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 x86/head: Remove confusing comment 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: x86-head-remove-confusing-comment.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 17270717e80de33a884ad328fea5f407d87f6d6a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Josh Poimboeuf Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 21:43:31 -0500 Subject: x86/head: Remove confusing comment From: Josh Poimboeuf commit 17270717e80de33a884ad328fea5f407d87f6d6a upstream. This comment is actively wrong and confusing. It refers to the registers' stack offsets after the pt_regs has been constructed on the stack, but this code is *before* that. At this point the stack just has the standard iret frame, for which no comment should be needed. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: Jiri Slaby Cc: Juergen Gross Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a3c267b770fc56c9b86df9c11c552848248aace2.1505764066.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S @@ -271,10 +271,6 @@ bad_address: __INIT ENTRY(early_idt_handler_array) - # 104(%rsp) %rflags - # 96(%rsp) %cs - # 88(%rsp) %rip - # 80(%rsp) error code i = 0 .rept NUM_EXCEPTION_VECTORS .ifeq (EXCEPTION_ERRCODE_MASK >> i) & 1 Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jpoimboe@redhat.com are queue-4.14/x86-asm-don-t-use-the-confusing-.ifeq-directive.patch queue-4.14/x86-boot-relocate-definition-of-the-initial-state-of-cr0.patch queue-4.14/objtool-don-t-report-end-of-section-error-after-an-empty-unwind-hint.patch queue-4.14/x86-xen-fix-xen-head-elf-annotations.patch queue-4.14/x86-head-fix-head-elf-function-annotations.patch queue-4.14/objtool-print-top-level-commands-on-incorrect-usage.patch queue-4.14/x86-unwind-rename-unwinder-config-options-to-config_unwinder_.patch queue-4.14/x86-head-add-unwind-hint-annotations.patch queue-4.14/x86-head-remove-unused-bad_address-code.patch queue-4.14/x86-xen-add-unwind-hint-annotations.patch queue-4.14/x86-head-remove-confusing-comment.patch queue-4.14/x86-unwinder-make-config_unwinder_orc-y-the-default-in-the-64-bit-defconfig.patch queue-4.14/x86-unwind-make-config_unwinder_orc-y-the-default-in-kconfig-for-64-bit.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-relocate-page-fault-error-codes-to-traps.h.patch queue-4.14/x86-boot-annotate-verify_cpu-as-a-callable-function.patch