Patch "locking/refcounts: Do not force refcount_t usage as GPL-only export" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

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

locking/refcounts: Do not force refcount_t usage as GPL-only export

to the 4.14-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:
locking-refcounts-do-not-force-refcount_t-usage-as-gpl-only-export.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 17:24:54 -0800
Subject: locking/refcounts: Do not force refcount_t usage as GPL-only export

From: Kees Cook <[email protected]>

commit b562c171cf011d297059bd0265742eb5fab0ad2f upstream.

The refcount_t protection on x86 was not intended to use the stricter GPL export. This adjusts the linkage again to avoid a regression in the availability of the refcount API.

---
 arch/x86/mm/extable.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ bool ex_handler_refcount(const struct ex
 
 	return true;
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ex_handler_refcount);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ex_handler_refcount);
 
 /*
  * Handler for when we fail to restore a task's FPU state.  We should never get

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

queue-4.14/locking-refcounts-x86-asm-use-unique-.text-section-for-refcount-exceptions.patch queue-4.14/locking-refcounts-x86-asm-enable-config_arch_has_refcount.patch queue-4.14/locking-refcounts-do-not-force-refcount_t-usage-as-gpl-only-export.patch