Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] x86: sigcontext fixes, again

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Oct 27 2015 - 18:37:56 EST


On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 11:05 PM, Stas Sergeev <stsp@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I can't easily post an Oops: under X it doesn't even appear -
> machine freezes immediately, and under non-KMS console it is
> possible to get one, but difficult to screen-shot (using bare
> metal, not VM). Also the Oops was seemingly unrelated.
> And if you run "dosemu -s" under non-KMS console, you'll also
> reproduce this one:
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97321

Hmm. Andrew Morton responded to that initially, but then nothing
happened, and now it's been another six months. Andrew?

The arch/x86/mm/pat.c error handling does seem to be suspect. This is
all code several years old, so none of this is new, and I think Suresh
is gone. Adding a few other people with recent sign-offs to that
file, in the hope that somebody feels like they own it..

Linus
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