Re: [PATCH 4.14 05/69] x86/power: Make restore_processor_context() sane

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 1:04 PM Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon 2019-04-15 20:58:23, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > [ Upstream commit 7ee18d677989e99635027cee04c878950e0752b9 ]
> >
> > My previous attempt to fix a couple of bugs in __restore_processor_context():
> >
> >   5b06bbcfc2c6 ("x86/power: Fix some ordering bugs in __restore_processor_context()")
> >
> > ... introduced yet another bug, breaking suspend-resume.
> >
> > Rather than trying to come up with a minimal fix, let's try to clean it up
> > for real.  This patch fixes quite a few things:
>
> 5b06bbcfc2c6 fixed theoretical bug; rather than porting it to stable
> than fixing it up, it would be better not to port it to stable in the
> first place or simply revert it there.

Are you sure about that?  The bug was reported by real users who had
their systems really crash:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/?q=0fede9f9-88b0-a6e7-1027-dfb2019b8ef2%40linux.intel.com

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFwsMuHUBQz5kDNwRf17JnasXMWjvmLq5qXGH-694yeq1w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

And we had a report that the bug got backported:

https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20190407160005.djiw4reapwvbxmgo@debian/

And if we're going to backport some of the fix, we should definitely
backport the whole set to avoid having the -stable kernels be in a
state that was never in any released kernel.


--Andy
https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20190407160005.djiw4reapwvbxmgo@debian/