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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bpetkov@suse.de>,
	Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
	stable-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch "x86/entry/64: Add missing irqflags tracing to native_load_gs_index()" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 15:01:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171204140146.GB8744@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8F07AA65-5620-4B6C-B077-1F291984A587@amacapital.net>

On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 05:52:55AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Dec 4, 2017, at 4:02 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 10:50:22AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 6:29 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>>>> On Nov 30, 2017, at 12:44 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 08:23:10AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> >>>>> If this hasn't been released yet, please hold off.  It's buggy.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Ah crap, I missed this and just released it.  Is there a fix for this in
> >>>> Linus's tree?  How "buggy" is it?
> >>> 
> >>> It breaks suspend/resume on some configuration that I haven't quite figured out.  I think it only happens if (lockdep is on and some other unknown condition occurs) or (ftrace is actively tracing irq flags).  I have a fix, but I was waiting to for the OP to test it.
> >>> 
> >>> I'll send the fix Linusward later today without the Tested-by if I don't hear anything.
> >> 
> >> I think the thing to do is to revert the patch from -stable.  The bug
> >> it fixes is very minor, and the regression is that it made a
> >> pre-existing bug in some nearly-undebuggable core resume code much
> >> easier to hit.  I don't feel comfortable with a backport of the latter
> >> fix until it has a good long soak in Linus' tree.
> > 
> > Ok, now reverted.  Should I do the same thing for the patch in
> > 4.14-stable as well?
> 
> Yes please.

Great, now done.

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2017-12-04 14:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-27 12:41 Patch "x86/entry/64: Add missing irqflags tracing to native_load_gs_index()" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree gregkh
2017-11-29 16:23 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-11-30  8:44   ` Greg KH
2017-11-30 14:29     ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-11-30 18:50       ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-12-04 12:02         ` Greg KH
2017-12-04 13:52           ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-12-04 14:01             ` Greg KH [this message]

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