Re: [Xen-users] Patches fail - why ?

[Jan Vejvalka <jan.vejvalka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you, Mark -

- my question, however, remains: what do I do/assume wrong when I'm
getting errors applying the official (?) patch set (XSA-263) on the
official (?) source package (4.10.1).

Thanks, Jan


On 04.06.2018 18:29, Mark Pryor wrote:
> Hello,
>
> take the patches from git, stable-4.10
> $git checkout stable-4.10
> $git log --oneline RELEASE-4.10.1..c2b84e7cc4dca
>
> that commit is the last of the XSA-263 patchset, but note that none 
of the XSA-263 patches identify as an XSA in their description.
>
> I believe that command will give 35 lines. Then you can use `git 
format-patch` to export all.
>
> PryMar56
>
>
>
> On Sunday, June 3, 2018, 11:29:06 PM PDT, Jan Vejvalka 
<jan.vejvalka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Hi *,
>
> - I downloaded Xen 4.10.1 source from
>
> 
https://xenproject.org/downloads/xen-archives/xen-project-410-series/xen-4101/371-xen-4101/file.html
> - downloaded xsa-263 patches from
> http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/xsa263-4.10/*.patch
> - try to patch the source with patch --verbose -p1
> - get rejects, e.g.
>
> (...)
> |Subject: [PATCH] x86/spec_ctrl: Read MSR_ARCH_CAPABILITIES only once
> (...)
> Hunk #1 succeeded at 81.
> Hunk #2 succeeded at 121 (offset -1 lines).
> Hunk #3 FAILED at 133.
> Hunk #4 succeeded at 178 (offset -37 lines).
> Hunk #5 succeeded at 210 (offset -37 lines).
> Hunk #6 succeeded at 295 (offset -37 lines).
>
> What is it that I am doing wrong ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jan
>
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