[vbox-dev] Fixes for kernel 5.4

Sérgio Basto sergio at serjux.com
Tue Oct 1 22:03:34 GMT 2019


Many thanks Larry 

I'm going apply it now 

On Tue, 2019-10-01 at 16:45 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> Now that 5.4.0-rc1 has been released, I will post the kernel API
> fixes that work 
> for me.
> 
> The changes are as follows:
> 1. The issues reported by Cyrax regarding changes in skb_frag_t are
> implemented 
> with dependency on 5.4, not 5.3 as in the original.
> 2. The API to set/unset the executable bit in data pages has been
> removed. My 
> fix disables this feature. This approach works and is likely the
> correct one; 
> however, Oracle is reviewing the issue. See tracking bug 
> https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/18945
> 3. Some defines for various types are moved to
> include/uapi/linux/sched/types.h
> 
> These patches are released under the MIT license.
> 
> Larry
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Sérgio M. B.




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