From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Thomas Backlund <tmb@mageia.org>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, keescook@google.com, luto@kernel.org,
peterz@infradead.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
stable-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch "x86/tlb: Drop the _GPL from the cpu_tlbstate export" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 08:51:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180108075123.GB24062@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <07c466b3-5dd4-fbea-89d7-e0c95c83ad6e@mageia.org>
On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 03:58:26PM +0200, Thomas Backlund wrote:
> Den 06.01.2018 kl. 00:06, skrev gregkh@linuxfoundation.org:
> >
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> >
> > x86/tlb: Drop the _GPL from the cpu_tlbstate export
> >
> > 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-tlb-drop-the-_gpl-from-the-cpu_tlbstate-export.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 <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
> >
> >
> > From 1e5476815fd7f98b888e01a0f9522b63085f96c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> > Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 22:19:04 +0100
> > Subject: x86/tlb: Drop the _GPL from the cpu_tlbstate export
> >
> > From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> >
> > commit 1e5476815fd7f98b888e01a0f9522b63085f96c9 upstream.
> >
>
>
> This one is also needed in older stable branches, atleast down to 4.4 where
> we (Mageia) got a note about broken fglrx build with 4.4.110.
Ugh, ok, thanks for the report, I'll backport this. I didn't think it
was going to be needed given that some of the prerequsite patches were
not in 4.4 :(
greg k-h
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2018-01-05 22:06 Patch "x86/tlb: Drop the _GPL from the cpu_tlbstate export" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree gregkh
2018-01-07 13:58 ` Thomas Backlund
2018-01-08 7:51 ` Greg KH [this message]
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