This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    powerpc/tm: Fix null pointer deference in flush_hash_page

to the 3.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     powerpc-tm-fix-null-pointer-deference-in-flush_hash_page.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From c2fd22df89365df9451d5b91da3b7bfd48122ecd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Neuling <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 15:36:14 +0000
Subject: powerpc/tm: Fix null pointer deference in flush_hash_page

From: Michael Neuling <[email protected]>

commit c2fd22df89365df9451d5b91da3b7bfd48122ecd upstream.

Make sure that current->thread.reg exists before we deference it in
flush_hash_page.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <[email protected]>
Reported-by: John J Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
@@ -1191,6 +1191,7 @@ void flush_hash_page(unsigned long vpn,
         * unmapping it first, it may see the speculated version.
         */
        if (local && cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_TM) &&
+           current->thread.regs &&
            MSR_TM_ACTIVE(current->thread.regs->msr)) {
                tm_enable();
                tm_abort(TM_CAUSE_TLBI);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.9/powerpc-tm-fix-null-pointer-deference-in-flush_hash_page.patch
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