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Patch "x86/pti: Document fix wrong index" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

x86/pti: Document fix wrong index

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
x86-pti-document-fix-wrong-index.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 <[email protected]> know about it.

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From 98f0fceec7f84d80bc053e49e596088573086421 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: "zhenwei.pi" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 09:04:52 +0800
Subject: x86/pti: Document fix wrong index

From: zhenwei.pi <[email protected]>

commit 98f0fceec7f84d80bc053e49e596088573086421 upstream.

In section <2. Runtime Cost>, fix wrong index.

---
 Documentation/x86/pti.txt |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Documentation/x86/pti.txt +1 -1
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ this protection comes at a cost:
      non-PTI SYSCALL entry code, so requires mapping fewer
      things into the userspace page tables.  The downside is
      that stacks must be switched at entry time.
-  d. Global pages are disabled for all kernel structures not
+  c. Global pages are disabled for all kernel structures not
      mapped into both kernel and userspace page tables.  This
      feature of the MMU allows different processes to share TLB
      entries mapping the kernel.  Losing the feature means more

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.9/x86-pti-document-fix-wrong-index.patch