This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled x86/mpx: Re-add MPX to selftests Makefile to the 4.9-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-mpx-re-add-mpx-to-selftests-makefile.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From e64d5fbe56259c94df504af8ce804cfc6a022adb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 14:56:29 -0800 Subject: x86/mpx: Re-add MPX to selftests Makefile From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit e64d5fbe56259c94df504af8ce804cfc6a022adb upstream. Ingo pointed out that the MPX tests were no longer in the selftests Makefile. It appears that I shot myself in the foot on this one and accidentally removed them when I added the pkeys tests, probably from bungling a merge conflict. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 5f23f6d082a9 ("x86/pkeys: Add self-tests") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170201225629.C3070852@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/testing/selftests/x86/Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/tools/testing/selftests/x86/Makefile +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/x86/Makefile @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ include ../lib.mk .PHONY: all all_32 all_64 warn_32bit_failure clean TARGETS_C_BOTHBITS := single_step_syscall sysret_ss_attrs syscall_nt ptrace_syscall test_mremap_vdso \ - check_initial_reg_state sigreturn ldt_gdt iopl \ + check_initial_reg_state sigreturn ldt_gdt iopl mpx-mini-test \ protection_keys TARGETS_C_32BIT_ONLY := entry_from_vm86 syscall_arg_fault test_syscall_vdso unwind_vdso \ test_FCMOV test_FCOMI test_FISTTP \ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/x86-mpx-re-add-mpx-to-selftests-makefile.patch