On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 06:36:50PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > Hm, which are the underlying upstream commits - am I missing something? Yeah, 4.4 has taken the kaiser patches and thus no upstream commits. Thus this patch doesn't affect upstream as upstream has solved it differently: 49275fef986a ("x86/vsyscall/64: Explicitly set _PAGE_USER in the pagetable hierarchy") -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) --