linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.12 25/91] x86/setup: Extend low identity map to cover whole kernel range

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Date:	Sat, 9 Jan 2016 08:09:36 +0100
From:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:	Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>,
	Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
Cc:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.12 25/91] x86/setup: Extend low identity map to cover
 whole kernel range

On 01/06/2016, 03:22 PM, Luis Henriques wrote:
>> 23a0d4e8fa6d does fix a legitimate bug, albeit one that no one seems
>> to have ever hit. Personally, I'd go for backporting 23a0d4e8fa6d.
> 
> This commit doesn't seem to be too bad to backport.  I'm attaching 2
> backports:
> 
>  - one is for the 3.16 stable kernel,
>  - the other can be applied to 3.10, 3.12 and 3.13

Now applied to 3.12. Thanks.

-- 
js
suse labs