Re: [PATCH 4.9 00/39] 4.9.75-stable review

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Wed Jan 03 2018 - 20:25:29 EST


On Wed, 2018-01-03 at 21:11 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.75 release.
> There are 39 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> let me know.
[...]

This seems to be missing a backport of:

commit 85900ea51577e31b186e523c8f4e068c79ecc7d3
Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Dec 12 07:56:42 2017 -0800

x86/pti: Map the vsyscall page if needed

without which, KPTI will break some older user-space.

Ben.

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