On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 12:58:12PM -0700, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 3.10-stable tree. Stuff like this is very easy to miss when it comes in the middle of the general spam about stable kernels; the review mails do get rather vouluminous and unfortunately for me they end up going outside my normal upstream mail flow so are even easier to miss than normal. > I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at > Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt. > I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to > <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> and let me know why this patch should be > applied. Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be > seen again. This is needed because any attempt to fiddle directly with the register cache data structures will at best corrupt memory and at worst crash with modern kernels, the register cache it's trying to access directly doesn't exist any more and hasn't for quite some time.
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