Re: DO NOT APPLY: x86-64, espfix: Don't leak bits 31:16 of %esp returning to 16-bit stack

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Jul 15 2014 - 19:47:50 EST


On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 04:21:46PM -0700, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 3.13.11.5 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> >
> > ------------------
> >
> > From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > 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?

This means that Linus's tree is also broken?

thanks,

greg k-h
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