On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 02:29:58PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > > (sorry for the spam, I screwed up the stable@ address). > > BTW, thanks to Kirill for doing this patch! He posted it to LKML > but we need to ensure it is picked up for 4.2 and any -stable > kernels where this commit is applied: > > 6b7339f4: mm: avoid setting up anonymous pages into file mapping > > That broke MPX support because MPX sets a vma->vm_ops on an > anonymous VMA. We need this patch to make it work again, > basically removing MPX's use of ->vm_ops. Kirill made me aware > of this long ago, but I didn't double-check that his fix got > submitted and merged. > > I (Dave) fixed up a minor merge conflict and added the > try_unmap_single_bt() use of is_mpx_vma() (which were added > post-4.1). > > Note for -stable: The first hunk may not apply cleanly because of > other activity in arch/x86/mm/mmap.c, but should be trivial to > apply by hand. Hunk #5 on mpx.c is only present on 4.2-rc kernels.
Can someone send a version that is known to apply, you don't want to rely on me to get it right :) 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/
