On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 02:33:38PM -0700, Alok Kataria wrote:
> Package: linux-2.6
> Version: Debian 5.0r2
>
> Hi,
>
> There was a regression on mainline kernel due to my patches for tsc
> unification.
> It seems lenny has picked-up those unification patches but didn't pick
> the fix for that regression.
>
> I checked sources for Debian5 5.0r2 and its missing the fix.
>
> The commit details for the fix are
>
> commit 3d0decc4f49e8645cd6369b02ed076bebd3d61ad
> Author: Ingo Molnar <mi...@elte.hu>
> Date: Fri Jul 11 15:09:15 2008 +0200
>
> x86: fix tsc unification buglet with ftrace and stackprotector
>
>
> Please include it in the next security update.
> We have seen null pointer de-reference in hrtick_start_fair during
> bootup, similar to one mentioned in the commit details.
Thanks, merged in SVN for the next point update.
Cheers,
Moritz
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