This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/pti: Document fix wrong index
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-pti-document-fix-wrong-index.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 98f0fceec7f84d80bc053e49e596088573086421 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "zhenwei.pi" <zhenwei.pi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 09:04:52 +0800
Subject: x86/pti: Document fix wrong index
From: zhenwei.pi <zhenwei.pi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 98f0fceec7f84d80bc053e49e596088573086421 upstream.
In section <2. Runtime Cost>, fix wrong index.
Signed-off-by: zhenwei.pi <zhenwei.pi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1516237492-27739-1-git-send-email-zhenwei.pi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/x86/pti.txt | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/Documentation/x86/pti.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86/pti.txt
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ this protection comes at a cost:
non-PTI SYSCALL entry code, so requires mapping fewer
things into the userspace page tables. The downside is
that stacks must be switched at entry time.
- d. Global pages are disabled for all kernel structures not
+ c. Global pages are disabled for all kernel structures not
mapped into both kernel and userspace page tables. This
feature of the MMU allows different processes to share TLB
entries mapping the kernel. Losing the feature means more
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from zhenwei.pi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/x86-pti-document-fix-wrong-index.patch