Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull my kvm-ppc-fixes branch

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On 08/09/2017 16:37, Radim Krčmář wrote:
> 2017-08-30 16:21+1000, Paul Mackerras:
>> Paolo,
>>
>> Please do a pull from my kvm-ppc-fixes branch to get one more commit
>> for 4.13.  It adds mutual exclusion between list_add_rcu and
>> list_del_rcu calls on the kvm->arch.spapr_tce_tables list.  Without
>> this, userspace could potentially trigger corruption of the list and
>> cause a host crash or worse.
> 
> Both Paolo and I had a vacation the week before final 4.13, so I merged
> this for 3.14-rc1, sorry.

Pi is always a nice source of typos.

I guess it needs to go in 4.13-stable too?  Paul, can you forward it to
stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and include the "Fixes" information (which, by
the way, should probably be almost always included in -rc patches)?

Thanks,

Paolo
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