Re: [PING] EFI/PTI fix not backported to 3.16.XX?

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Hi all,

Was this included in a new release? I'm unaware of the release
schedule for 3.16, so perhaps it's still pending.

Thanks!

El dom., 15 mar. 2020 a las 17:36, Ben Hutchings
(<ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>) escribió:
>
> On Fri, 2020-03-13 at 18:41 +0000, Pavel Tatashin wrote:
> > Hi Ben,
> >
> > I have tested and it cherry-picks cleanly on 3.16. I do not see any
> > issues with backporting it to 3.16. Do you want me to send a patch for
> > review, or can you just cherry-pick 7ec5d87df34a to 3.16?
>
> I've queued this up, thanks.
>
> Ben.
>
> > Thank you,
> > Pasha
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 10:09 AM Martin Galvan <omgalvan.86@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I've been running some tests on Debian 8 (which uses a 3.16.XX
> > > kernel), and saw that my system would occasionally reboot when
> > > performing an EFI variables dump. I did some digging and saw that this
> > > problem first appeared in 4.4.110 and was fixed by Pavel Tatashin in
> > > commit 7ec5d87df34a. At the same time, 4.9.XX, 4.14.XX and mainline
> > > have commit 67a9108ed431, which also solves the issue. However, the
> > > 3.16 stable line doesn't seem to have either fix, and therefore the
> > > crash is still there.
> > >
> > > I don't know whether any distros use 3.16 other than Debian, but it'd
> > > still be good to have this fix backported as well.
> >
> >
> --
> Ben Hutchings
> Humour is the best antidote to reality.
>
>




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