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Upstreamed: Bug fix for copy_tofrom_user #6

Open paulusmack opened 8 years ago

paulusmack commented 8 years ago

This records the fact that hostos-1.0 includes the following commit, which fixes a bug which led to occasional data corruption in network stress tests:

da2b04781607 ("powerpc/64: Fix incorrect return value from __copy_tofrom_user", 2016-10-11)

It is now upstream in v4.9-rc1 with commit ID 1a34439e5a0b and is marked for inclusion in the stable trees. It is already in v4.8.5.