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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/5] i387: stable kernel backport
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:41:50AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
>
> The insane safe_address games go away in the cleanup patch, so it
> really shouldn't be much of an issue.
>
> In the end, save_address should just be
>
> #define safe_address (tsk->thread.has_fpu)
>
> (and in fact the whole #define got removed entirely in mainline in
> commit 80ab6f1e8c98, which might be fodder for -stable too)

That's not where the merge caused problems, it was in
arch/x86/kernel/traps.c and arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c, either I'm
missing a patch that needs to be added to the series, or something else
is odd, let me dig...

greg k-h

>
> Linus


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