This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled powerpc/kernel: Initialize load_tm on task creation 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: powerpc-kernel-initialize-load_tm-on-task-creation.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 7f22ced4377628074e2ac25f41a88f98eb3b03f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 11:40:59 -0300 Subject: powerpc/kernel: Initialize load_tm on task creation From: Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 7f22ced4377628074e2ac25f41a88f98eb3b03f1 upstream. Currently tsk->thread.load_tm is not initialized in the task creation and can contain garbage on a new task. This is an undesired behaviour, since it affects the timing to enable and disable the transactional memory laziness (disabling and enabling the MSR TM bit, which affects TM reclaim and recheckpoint in the scheduling process). Fixes: 5d176f751ee3 ("powerpc: tm: Enable transactional memory (TM) lazily for userspace") Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c @@ -1680,6 +1680,7 @@ void start_thread(struct pt_regs *regs, current->thread.tm_tfhar = 0; current->thread.tm_texasr = 0; current->thread.tm_tfiar = 0; + current->thread.load_tm = 0; #endif /* CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM */ } EXPORT_SYMBOL(start_thread); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from leitao@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/powerpc-kernel-fix-fp-and-vector-register-restoration.patch queue-4.9/powerpc-kernel-initialize-load_tm-on-task-creation.patch