On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 02:33:38PM -0700, Alok Kataria wrote: > Package: linux-2.6 > Version: Debian 5.0r2 > > Hi, > > There was a regression on mainline kernel due to my patches for tsc > unification. > It seems lenny has picked-up those unification patches but didn't pick > the fix for that regression.
Thanks for the report. Are you referring to the tsc_32/tsc_64 merge? We haven't included that for lenny and there aren't currently any plans to. The fixes for #524542 that I have in the abi branch use the pre-merge version from Ubuntu. If you're referring to something else, please let me know.. > I checked sources for Debian5 5.0r2 and its missing the fix. > > The commit details for the fix are > > commit 3d0decc4f49e8645cd6369b02ed076bebd3d61ad > Author: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> > Date: Fri Jul 11 15:09:15 2008 +0200 > > x86: fix tsc unification buglet with ftrace and stackprotector > > > Please include it in the next security update. If you believe this has security implifications, I'd suggest bringing it up on the oss-security list so that it gets tracked as such. > We have seen null pointer de-reference in hrtick_start_fair during > bootup, similar to one mentioned in the commit details. > > Thanks. > > > > -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
