[Stable-5.4][PATCH 0/3] arm64: Allow the compat vdso to be disabled at runtime

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Thu Jul 16 07:58:13 EDT 2020


On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 01:56:11PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> This is a backport of the series that recently went into 5.8. Note
> that the first patch is more a complete rewriting than a backport, as
> the vdso implementation in 5.4 doesn't have much in common with
> mainline. This affects the 32bit arch code in a benign way.
> 
> It has seen very little testing, as I don't have the HW that triggers
> this issue. I have run it in VMs by faking the CPU MIDR, and nothing
> caught fire. Famous last words.

These are also needed in 5.7.y, right?  If so, I need that series before
I can take this one as we don't want people moving to a newer kernel and
suffer regressions :(

thanks,

greg k-h



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