DO NOT APPLY: x86-64, espfix: Don't leak bits 31:16 of %esp returning to 16-bit stack

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Wed Jul 16 00:56:42 UTC 2014


On Tue, 2014-07-15 at 16:21 -0700, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com> wrote:
> > 3.13.11.5 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> >
> > ------------------
> >
> > From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at linux.intel.com>
> >
> > commit 3891a04aafd668686239349ea58f3314ea2af86b upstream.
> 
> Do not apply to any -stable release yet.  This causes nasty regressions on Xen.
> 
> --Andy
> 


Thanks very much Andy.  I've dropped it from the 3.13-stable queue.

 -Kamal






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