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From:   Kyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com>
Date:   Wed, 16 Nov 2022 16:45:12 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 0/6] x86/fpu: Allow PKRU to be (once again) written by ptrace
To:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
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        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 3:31 PM Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/15/22 15:09, Kyle Huey wrote:
> > Following last week's discussion I've reorganized this patch. The goal
> > remains to restore the pre-5.14 behavior of ptrace(PTRACE_SET_REGSET,
> > NT_X86_XSTATE) for the PKRU register (which was equivalent to a hardware
> > XRSTOR instruction).
>
> The new version looks great.  I've applied it.
>
> I did remove the stable@ tags for now.  There were a couple reasons for
> that.  First, most of the x86 stuff marked for stable@ goes via our
> tip/urgent branch and this doesn't seem super urgent.  It also touches
> code that's exposed in at least three separate UABIs, so I want a bit
> more soak time than x86/urgent normally provides.
>
> I have zero objections if anyone wants to submit it to stable@ after it
> hits Linus's tree.

Works for me, thanks.

- Kyle