On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 3:53 PM, Kees Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Dan Williams <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Kees Cook <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Dan Williams <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> Larry reports: "My PowerBook G4 Aluminum with a 32-bit PPC processor >>>> fails to boot for the 4.4-git series". This is likely due to X still >>>> needing /dev/mem access on this platform. >>>> >>>> CONFIG_IO_STRICT_DEVMEM is not yet safe to turn on when >>>> CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM=y. Remove the default so that old configurations >>>> do not change behavior. >>>> >>>> Fixes: 90a545e98126 ("restrict /dev/mem to idle io memory ranges") >>>> Reported-by: Larry Finger <[email protected]> >>>> Tested-by: Larry Finger <[email protected]> >>>> Link: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=145332012023825&w=2 >>>> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> >>>> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> >>>> Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]> >>>> Cc: Russell King <[email protected]> >>>> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> >>>> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> >>>> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]> >>> >>> Acked-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> >>> >> >> Thanks! >> >>> This should probably be CC: stable, yes? >> >> No, this breakage is new for the current merge window. > > Ah! Okay, I misunderstood the "4.4" comment. Should that be 4.5-git?
I believe Larry meant latest-Linus (v4.4.0+) when he said 4.4-git.
