Re: Patch "x86, vm86: fix VM86 syscalls: use SYSCALL_DEFINEx(...)" has been added to the 3.9-stable tree

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On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 11:41:46PM +0200, Alexander van Heukelum wrote:
> Hi Greg, Al,
> 
> The patch that went into mainline and was cc'ed to stable assumes that
> 2cf09666 "make SYSCALL_DEFINE<n>-generated wrappers do
> asmlinkage_protect... and switch i386 to HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS,
> killing open-coded uses of asmlinkage_protect() in a bunch of
> syscalls." is also included. I think my original patch would be better
> suited for the stable tree? It's tiny, independent, and it fixes the
> issue. See attached patch... Al, what do you think?
> 
> Also: please note that the problem was introduced in v3.9, so this is
> the only stable tree that should get this patch.

I really don't understand, should I not have included this patch in the
3.9-stable tree?  Should I use something else instead?  If so, what is
the git commit id?  Or should I add something on top of this one?

totally confused,

greg k-h
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