Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Dec 2018 11:54:07 +0100 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4.14 121/146] x86/fpu: Disable bottom halves while loading FPU registers |
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On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 08:00:20PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 06:26:24PM +0200, Jari Ruusu wrote: > > That same race appears to be present in older kernel branches also. > > The context is sligthly different, so the patch for 4.14 does not > > apply cleanly to older kernels. For 4.9 branch, this edit works: > > You could take the upstream one, amend it with your change, test it and > send it to Greg - I believe he'll take the backport gladly. > > :-)
Yes, that's the easiest way for me to accept such a patch, otherwise it gets put on the end of the very-long-queue...
thanks,
greg k-h
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