On Sun, 2013-08-18 at 11:57 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 4:05 PM, <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > Fix TLB gather virtual address range invalidation corner > > > > to the 3.10-stable tree > > So just a note: the original bug was introduced well back into 3.6, > but it's pretty much impossible to hit until commit 53a59fc67f97 that > hit 3.8. > > *However*, that commit was also back-ported to at least the 3.7 stable > series, so now the bug exists in all kernels v3.7.2 and newer. > > I don't know which stable kernels are "live" any more (looks like 3.7 > to 3.9 are all EOL as far as you are concerned), but it might be a > good idea to at least make sure the distros that may use them are > aware of this. The bug is pretty unlikely, but the symptoms are subtle > enough (random memory corruption) that it can be very annoying. > > OpenSUSE seems to be 3.7-based, but is clearly aware of this (since > this issue was escalated by Michal). Fedora seems to be 3.10 in both > F18 and F19 and is thus ok (eventually). Ubuntu might to be affected, > though (3.8?) Thanks Linus. I'll pick this up for the next 3.8 stable cycle (v3.8.13.8) so Ubuntu and other any other distros following 3.8.y.z[0] will get it that way. -Kamal [0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable > Other distros? > > Linus
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