linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.14 29/72] locking/qspinlock, x86: Provide liveness guarantee

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Thu, 20 Dec 2018 16:40:30 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        andrea.parri@...rulasolutions.com, longman@...hat.com,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.14 29/72] locking/qspinlock, x86: Provide liveness
 guarantee

On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 12:14:00PM +0000, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 9:28 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > 4.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> >
> > ------------------
> >
> > commit 7aa54be2976550f17c11a1c3e3630002dea39303 upstream.
> 
> Another upstream commit fixes this.
> b987ffc18fb3 ("x86/qspinlock: Fix compile error")

Maybe, but that commit doesn't apply to any of these stable trees :(

Care to provide a backport?

thanks,

greg k-h