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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable:PATCH 1/2] arm64: kernel: Save and restore addr_limit on exception entry
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 14:50:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160817125003.GA8428@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57B1F1B7.2090003@arm.com>

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 05:45:43PM +0100, James Morse wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On 14/08/16 16:54, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 07:11:19PM +0100, James Morse wrote:
> >> commit e19a6ee2460bdd0d0055a6029383422773f9999a upstream.
> >>
> >> If we take an exception while at EL1, the exception handler inherits
> >> the original context's addr_limit value. To be consistent always reset
> >> addr_limit and PSTATE.UAO on (re-)entry to EL1. This prevents accidental
> >> re-use of the original context's addr_limit.
> >>
> >> Based on a similar patch for arm from Russell King.
> >>
> >> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> >> Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> >> [ backport to stop perf misusing inherited addr_limit.
> >>   Removed code interacting with UAO and the irqstack ]
> >> Link: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=822
> >> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
> >> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> #4.1
> > 
> > Fails to apply to 4.4-stable, can you provide a backport for both of
> > these to that tree if you want them there?
> 
> Sorry - that is what I was trying to do!
> 
> v4.4:
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2016-August/448685.html
> 
> v4.1 (this one):
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2016-August/448684.html
> 
> 
> Did I mess something up in the cc/sign-off area?

Ah, that was confusing.  You sent 2 patches, as a series, and didn't
make it obvious what they were to be applied to.

Please make it so I can't miss it, otherwise I will :)

now queued up.

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2016-08-17 12:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-12 18:11 [stable:PATCH 1/2] arm64: kernel: Save and restore addr_limit on exception entry James Morse
2016-08-12 18:11 ` [stable:PATCH 2/2] " James Morse
2016-08-14 15:54 ` [stable:PATCH 1/2] " Greg KH
2016-08-15 16:45   ` James Morse
2016-08-17 12:50     ` Greg KH [this message]

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