On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 08:45:59AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So a patch something like this might be a safe way to fix the > potential infoleak in older kernels. > > THIS IS UNTESTED. It's a very obvious patch, though, so if it compiles > it probably works. It just initializes the output variable with 0 in > the inline asm description, instead of doing it in the exception > handler. > > It will generate slightly worse code (a few unnecessary ALU > operations), but it doesn't have any interactions with the exception > handler implementation. It builds here, so I've queued it up for 4.4-stable, let's see if the auto-builders have any problems with it. Thanks for the patch. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html