Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/mm: Fix boot crash caused by incorrect loop count calculation in sync_global_pgds()

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Jun 22 2017 - 03:22:37 EST



* Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> [ adding -stable ]
>
> The patch below is upstream as commit fc5f9d5f151c "x86/mm: Fix boot
> crash caused by incorrect loop count calculation in
> sync_global_pgds()". The referenced bug potentially affects all kaslr
> enabled kernels with > 512GB of memory. Please apply this patch to all
> current -stable kernels.

Yeah, that looks like a fix worth having in -stable.

Thanks,

Ingo