ACK: [SRU trusty] [PATCH 0/1] LP: #1750786 -- stress-ng enosys stressor

Khaled Elmously khalid.elmously at canonical.com
Thu Feb 22 18:24:29 UTC 2018


On 2018-02-22 10:24:06 , Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> While testing some upcoming changes for trusty we found that the (newly
> minted) stress-ng enosys stressor triggered a reproducible panic calling
> invalid system calls.  This is triggered by a false identification of
> kernel faults during uaccess operations.
> 
> Following this email is a patch for trusty which fixes the detection of
> uaccess faults.
> 
> Proposing for SRU to trusty.  In theory xenial also has this same code
> but the bug is not reproducible there.  Other series are not affected
> by this bug as the code was replaced by a different upstream fix which
> avoids the issue.
> 
> -apw
> 
> Andy Whitcroft (1):
>   UBUNTU: SAUCE: x86, extable: fix uaccess fixup detection
> 
>  arch/x86/mm/extable.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
Acked-by: Khalid Elmously <khalid.elmously at canonical.com>





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