linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.4 180/266] x86: stop exporting msr-index.h to userland

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Message-ID: <20190517080637.GA17012@amd>
Date:   Fri, 17 May 2019 10:06:37 +0200
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@...x.de>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 180/266] x86: stop exporting msr-index.h to userland

Hi!

> commit 25dc1d6cc3082aab293e5dad47623b550f7ddd2a upstream.
> 
> Even if this file was not in an uapi directory, it was exported because
> it was listed in the Kbuild file.
> 

While good idea for mainline, I don't think this belongs to stable.

Dropping it should not result in problems.

								Pavel


stable.> +++ b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild
> @@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ header-y += ldt.h
>  header-y += mce.h
>  header-y += mman.h
>  header-y += msgbuf.h
> -header-y += msr-index.h
>  header-y += msr.h
>  header-y += mtrr.h
>  header-y += param.h
> 

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