On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 12:54:58PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > This is a reasonably minimal backport of the i387 state save/restore bug. > > A few of the commits are just minimal "make it easier to backport" commits > that don't necessarily fix anything on their own. And a few of the others > are combinations of what is two commits in the development tree, because > it turned out to be easier and cleaner that way. > > The last one is the one that fixes the x86-32 bug, but the preemption > fixes are real fixes too, although they are probably not something that > anybody has necessarily ever hit in reality because the race window is so > small. Even so, if the fix itself isn't that important, the "make it > easier to backport the main one" would still be a big argument for it. > > I *really* hope that the people who could reproduce this bug will test the > back-port series too, since I never actually saw the bug personally to > begin with. And again, big thanks to Raphael who helped pinpoint and debug > this.
Thanks for doing the backport. Any ideas on how far back this problem goes? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
