linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.9 00/39] 4.9.75-stable review

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Message-ID: <20180104074152.GA32036@kroah.com>
Date:   Thu, 4 Jan 2018 08:41:52 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        linux@...ck-us.net, shuahkh@....samsung.com, patches@...nelci.org,
        ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk, lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.9 00/39] 4.9.75-stable review

On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 08:39:41AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 01:24:55AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Wed, 2018-01-03 at 21:11 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.75 release.
> > > There are 39 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > > let me know.
> > [...]
> > 
> > This seems to be missing a backport of:
> > 
> > commit 85900ea51577e31b186e523c8f4e068c79ecc7d3
> > Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
> > Date:   Tue Dec 12 07:56:42 2017 -0800
> > 
> >     x86/pti: Map the vsyscall page if needed
> > 
> > without which, KPTI will break some older user-space.
> 
> Ah crap, thanks, I forgot that one in all of this mess, I'll go queue it
> up now.

Oops, no, nevermind, I need to read the rest of this thread before
responding.  I'll leave this as-is for now, and wait for the real fixup.
Or, if I get done with everything else today, work on it myself
(doubtful, this is going to be an "interesting" day...)

thanks,

greg k-h