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Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/mm: Fix boot crash caused by incorrect loop count calculation in sync_global_pgds()

From Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/mm: Fix boot crash caused by incorrect loop count calculation in sync_global_pgds()
Date 2017-06-22 09:30 +0200
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* Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:

> [ adding -stable ]
> 
> The patch below is upstream as commit fc5f9d5f151c "x86/mm: Fix boot
> crash caused by incorrect loop count calculation in
> sync_global_pgds()". The referenced bug potentially affects all kaslr
> enabled kernels with > 512GB of memory. Please apply this patch to all
> current -stable kernels.

Yeah, that looks like a fix worth having in -stable.

Thanks,

	Ingo

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Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/mm: Fix boot crash caused by incorrect loop  count calculation in sync_global_pgds() Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2017-06-22 03:30 +0200
  Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/mm: Fix boot crash caused by incorrect loop  count calculation in sync_global_pgds() Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-06-22 09:30 +0200
  Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/mm: Fix boot crash caused by incorrect loop  count calculation in sync_global_pgds() Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> - 2017-06-27 13:20 +0200

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