Re: Patch "kprobes: Use synchronize_rcu_tasks() for optprobe with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

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On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 01:46:08AM +0530, Naveen N. Rao wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > 
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > 
> >     kprobes: Use synchronize_rcu_tasks() for optprobe with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y
> > 
> > to the 4.14-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:
> >      kprobes-use-synchronize_rcu_tasks-for-optprobe-with-config_preempt-y.patch
> > and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
> > 
> > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> > please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
> 
> Can you please also add the below two patches for v4.14-stable tree? The
> below patches address some issues that arise on powerpc due to this patch:
> commit 6baea433bc84 (powerpc/jprobes: Disable preemption when triggered
> through ftrace)
> commit 8a2d71a3f273 (powerpc/kprobes: Disable preemption before invoking
> probe handler for optprobes)
> 
> They apply on the stable-v4.14.y tree without any changes.

Thanks for the information, both patches now queued up.

greg k-h



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