From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 14:49:57 +0100 From: Greg KH To: Will Deacon Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] arm64 spectre and meltdown mitigations for -stable Message-ID: <20180209134957.GA1677@kroah.com> References: <20180209134811.GB11309@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180209134811.GB11309@arm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.3 (2018-01-21) X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 01:48:11PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote: > Hi Greg, > > I've put together a tag which includes all of the upstream arm64 spectre and > meltdown mitigations based on v4.15. Please could you consider taking this > into the 4.15 stable tree? > > I understand that Ard (cc'd) is using this stack to create a version for 4.14 > too. > > Note that there are two commits in here that are already in stable: > > 9c9345fb26ff [Variant 1/Spectre-v1] Documentation: Document array_index_nospec > 60d6c8a8e54e [Variant 1/Spectre-v1] array_index_nospec: Sanitize speculative array de-references > > so you can skip those when applying. > > Please shout if you run into trouble. Ah, nice, thanks for this. I'll use this for the next 4.15.y kernel release after the one I _just_ sent out for review a few minutes ago. greg k-h