Re: BUG: optimized kprobes illegal instructions in v4.19 stable kernels

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 07:25:50AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 07:17:11PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > ----- On Feb 21, 2019, at 7:10 PM, Russell King, ARM Linux linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 03:02:57PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > >> Hi Arnd, Russell, Linus,
> > >> 
> > >> Can we ensure the arm32 kprobes fix I submitted gets upstream before 5.0 final ?
> > >> It takes care of an illegal instruction issue with optimized kprobes on arm32.
> > >> 
> > >> Here is the current state of default kprobes configuration on arm32:
> > >> using them will trigger illegal instruction OOPS on v5.0-rc7, 4.19.24,
> > >> v4.14.102.
> > >> 
> > >> My fix is in "accepted" state in the arm patch tracking system:
> > >> 
> > >> https://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/viewpatch.php?id=8834/1
> > >> 
> > >> Should I send it directly to Linus as well ?
> > > 
> > > Accepted means it's in my tree pending to be sent to Linus.  It should
> > > now be in mainline.  Have you checked?
> > 
> > Hrm, why did I not see it earlier today... it's embarrassing.
> > 
> > It's there indeed, all is good!
> > 
> > Greg, you should be able to pick it into the stable kernels now.
> 
> What is the git commit id of it?

Oh nevermind, I see it.  I'll queue it up for the next round of kernel
releases after this one.

thanks,

greg k-h