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

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Date:   Thu, 04 Jan 2018 01:24:55 +0000
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc:     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 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.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Quantity is no substitute for quality, but it's the only one we've got.


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