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Re: [git pull] drm fixes for v4.15-rc3

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] that were missing them, Oh Christ, couldn't they have just added the one-liner SPDX tags rather than doing that crazy "new 22 line boiler plate garbage to...

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Re: [GIT PULL for v4.15-rc3] media fixes

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 7:56 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com> wrote:[...] changes - just comment changes at the source files; Guys, this was...

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Re: x86/ldt: Prevent ldt inheritance on exec

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) That said, can't we separate this out into the copy_mm() phase only? phase only? We have "arch_dup_mmap()" that is called on fork() only, so that could do the LDT copy...

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Re: Linux 4.15-rc2: Regression in resume from ACPI S3

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) [...] me commit id, that would help. The fix in there should be 5b06bbcfc2c6 ("x86/power: Fix some ordering bugs in __restore_processor_context()") so you can certainly...

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Re: Linux 4.15-rc2: Regression in resume from ACPI S3

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Aha. Yeah, people do. Yeah, people do. Andy? Andy?[...] ...should take 10 seconds or so. I'm told 0day does *some* suspend/resume testing, but I think it's pretty...

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Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 02/20] torture: Prepare scripting for shif ...

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Things like that. So I think that if people worry about leaking pointers, they should primarily go for: primarily go for: - just use %p and now get the hashed value -...

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Re: [PATCH] mm/slab: Do not hash pointers when debugging slab

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote:[...] *dbg_userword(cachep, objp)); Is there actually any point to the %px at all? Is there actually any point to the %px at all? Why not remove it? [...]...

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Re: [PATCH 1/1] futex: futex_wake_op, fix sign_extend32 sign bits

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 6:35 AM, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> I'm applying this directly to my tree since I didn't see anybody else react to it, but the whole...

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Re: Linux 4.15-rc2: Regression in resume from ACPI S3

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) And the comment does seem relevant for 32-bit too: relevant for 32-bit too:[...] * and LDT, which happen in fix_processor_context(). You've moved down the 32-bit...

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Linux 4.15-rc3

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Johnson (1): firmware: cleanup FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL message Robin Murphy (1): iommu/vt-d: Fix scatterlist offset handling Roger He (5): drm/ttm: use NUM_PAGES_TO_ALLOC...

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Re: [PATCH] Fix resume on x86-32 machines

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) I think we actually leave the user-space percpu segment in %gs (or the stack canary base), so that one we should actually save/restore, but I'm getting the feeling that...

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Re: [PATCH] Fix resume on x86-32 machines

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 10:41 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote: [...] do some trivial fix/revert and fix it for real next time around? I don't...

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Re: [GIT PULL] SCSI fixes for 4.15-rc3

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) If you save a pointer in an integer "hostdata[0]" field, then you damn well do the proper casts or helper functions or something, you don't just ignore the compiler...

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Re: Linux 4.15-rc2: Regression in resume from ACPI S3

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Looking a bit more at this, I think it should be solved by: - load the original read-write GDT early, along with the IDT. We have already saved it off in...

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Re: [GIT PULL] SCSI fixes for 4.15-rc3

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 9:22 AM, Martin K. wrote:[...] Arnd and Johannes fixed this up right away: The commit you point to _is_ the probnlem. It does: struct...

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Re: Linux 4.15-rc2: Regression in resume from ACPI S3

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) We only do the fault protection on 32-bit. only do the fault protection on 32-bit. In fact, we really should try to avoid taking faults here anyway, shouldn't we? Hmm....

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Re: [patch 13/16] x86/ldt: Introduce LDT write fault handler

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] ACCESS bit in the handler. This really scares me. This really scares me. We use segments in some critical code in the kernel, like the whole percpu data...

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Re: [patch 11/16] x86/ldt: Force access bit for CS/SS

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 9:32 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote: [...] the IRET to userspace. Ok, so the other patch made me nervous, this just makes...

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Re: [patch 13/16] x86/ldt: Introduce LDT write fault handler

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 11:21 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> We end up loading the selector for %gs and %fs, and those selectors end up being connected...

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Re: Linux 4.15-rc2: Regression in resume from ACPI S3

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) I'm not sure what's up.) I think your link is just bogus. I think your link is just...

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