Re: Patch "x86/Xen: swap NX determination and GDT setup on BSP" has been added to the 4.19-stable tree

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On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 02:36:51PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
> Greg,
> 
> On 24.05.21 14:13, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > 
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > 
> >      x86/Xen: swap NX determination and GDT setup on BSP
> > 
> > to the 4.19-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:
> >       x86-xen-swap-nx-determination-and-gdt-setup-on-bsp.patch
> > and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.
> > 
> > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> > please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
> 
> Was something wrong with my tagging:
> 
> > Cc: <stable.vger.kernel.org> # 5.9

Your tagging here was broken for the stable address :)


> > Fixes: 36104cb9012a82e73 ("x86/xen: Delay get_cpu_cap until stack canary is established")
> 
> indicating it should _NOT_ be added before kernel 5.9?

Yeah, we don't really have a good way to show that, as I had assumed
this was the commit in Linus's tree, and that you didn't notice that
this had been backported to 4.14.y and 4.19.y.

> For older kernels a different solution is needed in order not to break
> 32-bit PV guests.

Ok, I'll go drop this from 5.4.y now, thanks!

greg k-h



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