This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
selftests/x86/pkeys: Remove unused functions
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: selftests-x86-pkeys-remove-unused-functions.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From ce676638fe7b284132a7d7d5e7e7ad81bab9947e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 08:26:17 +0100 Subject: selftests/x86/pkeys: Remove unused functions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
From: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org
commit ce676638fe7b284132a7d7d5e7e7ad81bab9947e upstream.
This also gets rid of two build warnings:
protection_keys.c: In function ‘dumpit’: protection_keys.c:419:3: warning: ignoring return value of ‘write’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result] write(1, buf, nr_read); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: Dave Hansen dave.hansen@linux.intel.com Cc: Shuah Khan shuahkh@osg.samsung.com Cc: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- tools/testing/selftests/x86/protection_keys.c | 28 -------------------------- 1 file changed, 28 deletions(-)
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/x86/protection_keys.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/x86/protection_keys.c @@ -381,34 +381,6 @@ pid_t fork_lazy_child(void) return forkret; }
-void davecmp(void *_a, void *_b, int len) -{ - int i; - unsigned long *a = _a; - unsigned long *b = _b; - - for (i = 0; i < len / sizeof(*a); i++) { - if (a[i] == b[i]) - continue; - - dprintf3("[%3d]: a: %016lx b: %016lx\n", i, a[i], b[i]); - } -} - -void dumpit(char *f) -{ - int fd = open(f, O_RDONLY); - char buf[100]; - int nr_read; - - dprintf2("maps fd: %d\n", fd); - do { - nr_read = read(fd, &buf[0], sizeof(buf)); - write(1, buf, nr_read); - } while (nr_read > 0); - close(fd); -} - #define PKEY_DISABLE_ACCESS 0x1 #define PKEY_DISABLE_WRITE 0x2
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mingo@kernel.org are
queue-4.9/x86-spectre-fix-an-error-message.patch queue-4.9/nospec-move-array_index_nospec-parameter-checking-into-separate-macro.patch queue-4.9/x86-nvmx-properly-set-spec_ctrl-and-pred_cmd-before-merging-msrs.patch queue-4.9/x86-speculation-add-asm-msr-index.h-dependency.patch queue-4.9/x86-cpu-rename-cpu_data.x86_mask-to-cpu_data.x86_stepping.patch queue-4.9/x86-cpu-change-type-of-x86_cache_size-variable-to-unsigned-int.patch queue-4.9/x86-speculation-update-speculation-control-microcode-blacklist.patch queue-4.9/x86-speculation-correct-speculation-control-microcode-blacklist-again.patch queue-4.9/selftests-x86-do-not-rely-on-int-0x80-in-single_step_syscall.c.patch queue-4.9/selftests-x86-mpx-fix-incorrect-bounds-with-old-_sigfault.patch queue-4.9/selftests-x86-pkeys-remove-unused-functions.patch queue-4.9/x86-speculation-fix-up-array_index_nospec_mask-asm-constraint.patch queue-4.9/kvm-x86-reduce-retpoline-performance-impact-in-slot_handle_level_range-by-always-inlining-iterator-helper-methods.patch queue-4.9/selftests-x86-do-not-rely-on-int-0x80-in-test_mremap_vdso.c.patch queue-4.9/x86-speculation-clean-up-various-spectre-related-details.patch queue-4.9/x86-entry-64-compat-clear-registers-for-compat-syscalls-to-reduce-speculation-attack-surface.patch