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Date:   Thu, 20 Jul 2017 11:41:38 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Cc:     kernel test robot <xiaolong.ye@...el.com>,
        Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com>,
        Daniel Micay <danielmicay@...il.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Daniel Axtens <dja@...ens.net>,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...hip.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, LKP <lkp@...org>
Subject: Re: [lkp-robot] [include/linux/string.h] 6974f0c455: kernel_BUG_at_lib/string.c

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 8:51 AM, Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
> Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>

Ok, I committed that patch as-is.

Other architectures may end up with the same issue, unless they really
happen to have just a single instruction that fits in their
kprobe_opcode_t type in their templates. But I didn't touch any of
their (similar) code, since it will need testing.

                  Linus