On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 04:56:36PM -0700, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Greg KH <g...@kroah.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 04:21:46PM -0700, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Kamal Mostafa <ka...@canonical.com> wrote: > >> > 3.13.11.5 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please > >> > let me know. > >> > > >> > ------------------ > >> > > >> > From: "H. Peter Anvin" <h...@linux.intel.com> > >> > > >> > commit 3891a04aafd668686239349ea58f3314ea2af86b upstream. > >> > >> Do not apply to any -stable release yet. This causes nasty regressions on > >> Xen. > > > > I thought you all found the Xen-regression-fix patch a few hours ago, > > right? > > That patch is insufficient: Xen guests still fail to initialize > espfix64 correctly on SMP. It's currently unclear that espfix64 can > work at all on Xen -- it's may be rather fundamentally incompatible > with the Xen hypercall IRET mechanism. So it might need to be > disabled entirely on Xen (and maybe Xen will fix the info leak in the > hypervisor).
Ok, I'll pospone these all until the next round of stable releases next week, Linus's tree should be fixed by then. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
