Re: [Linux-kselftest-mirror] [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.9 04/52] x86/selftests: Add clobbers for int80 on x86_64

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 05:42:25PM +0000, Dmitry Safonov wrote:

Hi Sasha,

I would object including this to stable tree:

1. It's selftest fixup
2. I have never saw selftests failing because of it (but it's possible) I saw this in CRIU (Checkpoint Restore In Userspace) project triggering, so I've fixed the selftests, mostly for documentation reasons - as people in userspace can reuse this code and think it's good and will just work after copy-paste (which is not the case).

So, this patch doesn't look urgent to include it in -stable kernel.

Hey Dmitry,

We try to backport selftest patches as stable material to allow a "complete" selftest to run on stable kernels.