linux-kernel - Re: [ 33/73] x86, microcode: Sanitize per-cpu microcode reloading interface

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Date:	Sun, 05 Aug 2012 19:56:08 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
Cc:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>,
	Sven Joachim <svenjoac@....de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Kevin Winchester <kjwinchester@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [ 33/73] x86, microcode: Sanitize per-cpu microcode reloading
 interface

On Sun, 2012-08-05 at 11:21 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 06:23:41PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 
> [ … ]
> 
> > > > Thanks everyone for working this out.
> > > >
> > > > If you combine multiple mainline commits like this, the new commit
> > > > message should refer to all of them. I've fixed that up this time.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> > > Ben, the backport is also needed on 3.0 and 3.4, do you have your patch
> > > queue available for download/pull somewhere?
> > 
> > This is in v3.2.26, tagged in git
> > <git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bwh/linux-3.2.y.git>.
> > I'll wait for Greg to generate tarballs etc. before sending the
> > announcement.
> 
> Ok, guys.
> 
> Pls let me know if I should send the backported patch for 3.0 and 3.4 to
> Greg or you are doing this.

Please do that.  They will both need commit
e826abd523913f63eb03b59746ffb16153c53dc4 ('x86, microcode:
microcode_core.c simple_strtoul cleanup') and 3.0 needs the !SMP fix.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Computers are not intelligent.	They only think they are.

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