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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Thomas D <whissi@whissi.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, luto@kernel.org,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH-v3.14.y v2 1/6] x86/nmi: Enable nested do_nmi() handling for 64-bit kernels
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 15:38:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150929133817.GB24418@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1439993512-5196-2-git-send-email-whissi@whissi.de>

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 04:11:47PM +0200, Thomas D wrote:
> From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
> 
> 32-bit kernels handle nested NMIs in C.  Enable the exact same
> handling on 64-bit kernels as well.  This isn't currently
> necessary, but it will become necessary once the asm code starts
> allowing limited nesting.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c | 123 +++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------
>  1 file changed, 52 insertions(+), 71 deletions(-)

Any reason why you didn't sign off on these?

And please provide the git commit ids of the patches, otherwise I have
to go dig them up, and that's a pain when you are dealing with the
number of patches I have to deal with...

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-29 13:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-17 10:39 Request for stable 3.18.y and 3.14.y inclusion: Fix for CVE-2015-3290 (nmi) Thomas D.
2015-08-17 13:23 ` Greg KH
2015-08-17 22:55   ` [PATCH-v3.14.y 0/6] x86/nmi/64: Stable backports for CVE-2015-3290 and CVE-2015-5157 Thomas D
2015-08-17 22:55     ` [PATCH-v3.14.y 1/6] x86/nmi: Enable nested do_nmi() handling for 64-bit kernels Thomas D
2015-08-17 22:55     ` [PATCH-v3.14.y 2/6] x86/nmi/64: Remove asm code that saves CR2 Thomas D
2015-08-17 22:55     ` [PATCH-v3.14.y 3/6] x86/nmi/64: Switch stacks on userspace NMI entry Thomas D
2015-08-18 15:45       ` Jiri Slaby
2015-08-18 17:12         ` Thomas D.
2015-08-18 19:32           ` Jiri Slaby
2015-08-19 14:11             ` [PATCH-v3.14.y v2 0/6] x86/nmi/64: Stable backports for CVE-2015-3290 and CVE-2015-5157 Thomas D
2015-08-19 14:11               ` [PATCH-v3.14.y v2 1/6] x86/nmi: Enable nested do_nmi() handling for 64-bit kernels Thomas D
2015-09-29 13:38                 ` Greg KH [this message]
2015-08-19 14:11               ` [PATCH-v3.14.y v2 2/6] x86/nmi/64: Remove asm code that saves CR2 Thomas D
2015-08-19 14:11               ` [PATCH-v3.14.y v2 3/6] x86/nmi/64: Switch stacks on userspace NMI entry Thomas D
2015-08-19 14:11               ` [PATCH-v3.14.y v2 4/6] x86/nmi/64: Improve nested NMI comments Thomas D
2015-08-19 14:11               ` [PATCH-v3.14.y v2 5/6] x86/nmi/64: Reorder nested NMI checks Thomas D
2015-08-19 14:11               ` [PATCH-v3.14.y v2 6/6] x86/nmi/64: Use DF to avoid userspace RSP confusing nested NMI detection Thomas D
2015-09-29 14:11               ` [PATCH-v3.14.y v2 0/6] x86/nmi/64: Stable backports for CVE-2015-3290 and CVE-2015-5157 Greg KH
2015-08-17 22:55     ` [PATCH-v3.14.y 4/6] x86/nmi/64: Improve nested NMI comments Thomas D
2015-08-17 22:55     ` [PATCH-v3.14.y 5/6] x86/nmi/64: Reorder nested NMI checks Thomas D
2015-08-17 22:55     ` [PATCH-v3.14.y 6/6] x86/nmi/64: Use DF to avoid userspace RSP confusing nested NMI detection Thomas D

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