linux-kernel - Re: Kernel bug with MPX?

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Message-ID: <3e53f808-f675-0c7f-1bb2-d429f35e75a5@intel.com>
Date:   Mon, 18 Mar 2019 08:59:06 -0700
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc:     Richard Biener <rguenther@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel bug with MPX?

On 3/18/19 4:47 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
>> This is the most minimal and least invasive patch needed to
>> start removing MPX.
> Is this something we _want_ to push to stable trees?

For stable trees, probably not.  It might cause a kernel update to just
break existing apps.