On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 12:44:09PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote: > On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 03:54:40PM +0200, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-stable tree. > > If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm > > tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit > > id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. > > Urgh. I'm going to punt on this unless somebody requests a backport to > a kernel prior to 4.19 explicitly. The issue is that our syscall entry > code was moved to C after 4.14 and this workaround relies heavily on that > work. A backport would therefore necessitate a rewrite of the workaround > that hooks the assembly directly. Whilst do-able, I'd rather know that > (a) somebody wants this (b) they plan to deploy it on real devices and > (c) they can help to test. > > Sound reasonable? Sounds fine to me. Thanks for the backports you did send, I've queued them up now. greg k-h
