linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.2 110/110] x86/ldt: Make modify

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Date:	Tue, 11 Aug 2015 20:23:27 +0200
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...e.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
	Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@...rix.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	xen-devel <xen-devel@...ts.xen.org>,
	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	"security@...nel.org" <security@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.2 110/110] x86/ldt: Make modify_ldt synchronous

On Mon, 2015-08-10 at 09:47 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 3:12 AM, Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk> wrote:
> > 3.2.71-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > 
> > ------------------
> > 
> > From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
> > 
> > commit 37868fe113ff2ba814b3b4eb12df214df555f8dc upstream.
> 
> Unfortunately, this patch was slightly buggy.  The fixes are:
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?h=x86/urgent&id=4809146b86c3d41ce588fdb767d021e2a80600dd
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?h=x86/urgent&id=136d9d83c07c5e30ac49fc83b27e8c4842f108fc
> 
> Grr, making major changes like this in the middle of a release cycle
> isn't the best.

OK, I'll defer this to the next update.  Thanks.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Theory and practice are closer in theory than in practice.
                                - John Levine, moderator of comp.compilers


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