From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:50232 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755786AbeAHHvU (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2018 02:51:20 -0500 Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 08:51:23 +0100 From: Greg KH To: Thomas Backlund 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 Message-ID: <20180108075123.GB24062@kroah.com> References: <151519000924026@kroah.com> <07c466b3-5dd4-fbea-89d7-e0c95c83ad6e@mageia.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <07c466b3-5dd4-fbea-89d7-e0c95c83ad6e@mageia.org> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 know about it. > > > > > > From 1e5476815fd7f98b888e01a0f9522b63085f96c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > > From: Thomas Gleixner > > Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 22:19:04 +0100 > > Subject: x86/tlb: Drop the _GPL from the cpu_tlbstate export > > > > From: Thomas Gleixner > > > > 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