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

x86/head: Remove unused 'bad_address' code

to the 4.14-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: x86-head-remove-unused-bad_address-code.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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.

From a8b88e84d124bc92c4808e72b8b8c0e0bb538630 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 21:43:32 -0500 Subject: x86/head: Remove unused 'bad_address' code

From: Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com

commit a8b88e84d124bc92c4808e72b8b8c0e0bb538630 upstream.

It's no longer possible for this code to be executed, so remove it.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com Cc: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Cc: Boris Ostrovsky boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com Cc: Jiri Slaby jslaby@suse.cz Cc: Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/32a46fe92d2083700599b36872b26e7dfd7b7965.1505764066... Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S @@ -266,9 +266,6 @@ ENDPROC(start_cpu0) .quad init_thread_union + THREAD_SIZE - SIZEOF_PTREGS __FINITDATA

-bad_address: - jmp bad_address - __INIT ENTRY(early_idt_handler_array) i = 0

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jpoimboe@redhat.com are

queue-4.14/x86-asm-don-t-use-the-confusing-.ifeq-directive.patch queue-4.14/x86-boot-relocate-definition-of-the-initial-state-of-cr0.patch queue-4.14/objtool-don-t-report-end-of-section-error-after-an-empty-unwind-hint.patch queue-4.14/x86-xen-fix-xen-head-elf-annotations.patch queue-4.14/x86-head-fix-head-elf-function-annotations.patch queue-4.14/objtool-print-top-level-commands-on-incorrect-usage.patch queue-4.14/x86-unwind-rename-unwinder-config-options-to-config_unwinder_.patch queue-4.14/x86-head-add-unwind-hint-annotations.patch queue-4.14/x86-head-remove-unused-bad_address-code.patch queue-4.14/x86-xen-add-unwind-hint-annotations.patch queue-4.14/x86-head-remove-confusing-comment.patch queue-4.14/x86-unwinder-make-config_unwinder_orc-y-the-default-in-the-64-bit-defconfig.patch queue-4.14/x86-unwind-make-config_unwinder_orc-y-the-default-in-kconfig-for-64-bit.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-relocate-page-fault-error-codes-to-traps.h.patch queue-4.14/x86-boot-annotate-verify_cpu-as-a-callable-function.patch