Re: [PATCH] arm64: cpufeature: Fix truncating a feature value

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 12:12:01PM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> All,
> 
> On 10/10/2019 12:08, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> > A signed feature value is truncated to turn to an unsigned value
> > causing bad state in the system wide infrastructure. This affects
> > the discovery of FP/ASIMD support on arm64. Fix this by making sure
> > we cast it properly.
> > 
> > Fixes: 4f0a606bce5ec ("arm64: cpufeature: Track unsigned fields")
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v4.4
> 
> Please note that this patch is only applicable for stable 4.4 tree.
> I should have removed the Fixes tag.

Why is it only for 4.4?  That needs to be documented really really
really well in the changelog as to why this is a one-off patch, and why
we can't just take the relevant patches that are in Linus's tree
instead.

Please fix up and resend.

thanks,

greg k-h



[Index of Archives]     [Linux Kernel]     [Kernel Development Newbies]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite Hiking]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]

  Powered by Linux