Re: [Linux-stable-mirror] Patch "kaiser: fix intel_bts perf crashes" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

On Thu, 1 Feb 2018, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

kaiser: fix intel_bts perf crashes

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: kaiser-fix-intel_bts-perf-crashes.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

I thought that to get into stable the patch had to be in upstream first.

As far as I know, there is no fix for this particular problem (BTS disabled due to KPTI caused crashes) upstream.

Vince