Re: [PATCH 0/3] ABI CHANGE!!! Remove questionable remote SP reads

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Oct 03 2016 - 19:18:00 EST


On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Ping!
>
> We need to decide fairly soon whether to apply these (or perhaps just
> patch 1 or just patches 2 and 3) for 4.9. For any parts that aren't
> applied, I'll send quick fixups to pin the stack in the offending
> code.

I think we should apply it. Hopefully nothing uses it, and nobody will
notice. And if somebody *does* notice, the sooner we find out, the
better.

Linus