Re: [Linux-stable-mirror] backport Rewrite sync_core() to use IRET-to-self to stable kernels?

On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 6:59 PM, Zhang, Ning A ning.a.zhang@intel.com wrote:

hello, Greg, Andy, Thomas

would you like to backport these two patches to LTS kernel?

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/comm...

x86/asm/32: Make sync_core() handle missing CPUID on all 32-bit kernels

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/comm...

x86/asm: Rewrite sync_core() to use IRET-to-self

I'd be in favor of backporting 1c52d859cb2d417e7216d3e56bb7fea88444cec9. I see no compelling reason to backport the other one, since it doesn't fix a bug. Greg, can you do this?