Re: Please consider for stable

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On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 12:47:16PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
> Upstream commit b2d7a075a1ccef2fb321d595802190c8e9b39004
> ("x86/pae: use 64 bit atomic xchg function in
> native_ptep_get_and_clear") should be considered for stable kernels from
> 4.17 up (I'll send backports for older kernels when I know you are
> taking the patch).
> 
> The patch seems not only to avoid intermediate L1TF vulnerable PTEs,
> but there are reports of it fixing the issue mentioned in
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198497

Thanks, now queued up.

greg k-h



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