Re: [PATCH 3.2 110/110] x86/ldt: Make modify_ldt synchronous

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Tue Aug 11 2015 - 14:23:50 EST


On Mon, 2015-08-10 at 09:47 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 3:12 AM, Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 3.2.71-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> >
> > ------------------
> >
> > From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > commit 37868fe113ff2ba814b3b4eb12df214df555f8dc upstream.
>
> Unfortunately, this patch was slightly buggy. The fixes are:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?h=x86/urgent&id=4809146b86c3d41ce588fdb767d021e2a80600dd
>
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?h=x86/urgent&id=136d9d83c07c5e30ac49fc83b27e8c4842f108fc
>
> Grr, making major changes like this in the middle of a release cycle
> isn't the best.

OK, I'll defer this to the next update. Thanks.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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