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Message-ID: <20120223195007.GA5160@kroah.com>
Date:	Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:50:07 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	raphael@...o.asia, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] i387: stable kernel backport

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:41:50AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> 
> The insane safe_address games go away in the cleanup patch, so it
> really shouldn't be much of an issue.
> 
> In the end, save_address should just be
> 
>   #define safe_address (tsk->thread.has_fpu)
> 
> (and in fact the whole #define got removed entirely in mainline in
> commit 80ab6f1e8c98, which might be fodder for -stable too)

That's not where the merge caused problems, it was in
arch/x86/kernel/traps.c and arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c, either I'm
missing a patch that needs to be added to the series, or something else
is odd, let me dig...

greg k-h

> 
>                  Linus
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