From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:57384 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932708AbcKVRSw (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Nov 2016 12:18:52 -0500 Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 18:08:07 +0100 From: Greg KH To: Borislav Petkov Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, akataria@vmware.com, bigeasy@linutronix.de, boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, ciwillia@brocade.com, m.v.b@runbox.com, peterz@infradead.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, stable-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Patch "x86/cpu: Deal with broken firmware (VMWare/XEN)" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree Message-ID: <20161122170807.GB20022@kroah.com> References: <147972578225225@kroah.com> <20161122150458.ymn4pteiiip5zk3s@pd.tnic> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20161122150458.ymn4pteiiip5zk3s@pd.tnic> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 04:04:58PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 11:56:22AM +0100, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote: > > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > x86/cpu: Deal with broken firmware (VMWare/XEN) > > > > to the 4.8-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-cpu-deal-with-broken-firmware-vmware-xen.patch > > and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory. > > > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > > please let know about it. > > Yes, please remove it from the stable queue for now. We'll have a fix ontop > first and we'll submit both then as the check > > if (apicid != c->initial_apicid) { > > fires on pretty much everything-AMD now. Now removed, thanks for letting me know. greg k-h