From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Google-Smtp-Source: AH8x2267fePyX3bJSBtmjw6dyadAOOrtQQBqUSROIhrPA7VEcEZtSqKQ3ARufcxhXESGEiUAGHpV ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; t=1519084636; cv=none; d=google.com; s=arc-20160816; b=TfX8h092vMJKo3jALfqbh92CqH/AZzkycN0CLF2cXOiRXTSXr8R4oQGC4bWvnr17EC Xmy/HkNDfdakoGa9MdE3+x9M+4c90RTm8gX+TzqSL564dI11JQx02WFKGcRAAxm4xhNF Izu2VH62b2EKrHe1FpgJXjB09++Uzdsysz8laHa0wSXIoiuLs6H3CHX8jkIhfnNlIAOS bJK/Cc44xeVXAY64VejkjRqB07qxniKJvlVY5TQPp+74urrfc2Y4SXO6h1rGTBtB2lIv Uv134Nzpf9eCbkKxD0IW8mTjjvVAWAV527cfOOL9CxD4EWx2Os9t3dH2nHFBVND2oCk1 c0AQ== ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=arc-20160816; h=subject:content-transfer-encoding:content-language:in-reply-to :mime-version:user-agent:date:message-id:organization:from :references:cc:to:arc-authentication-results; bh=4k/02LCjDh4asMG5Zi5W36aca5Z6lt4MHrKlJ1UfduY=; b=ao9/wW7c6INCksk5huF65HaD0VxMw7xB6P+EAQpbAiByPS4XOfu5v3PUTADzRCKq4u VCSt6HSE6ZP0TtiyGX7wBUc2gDXRl/1fTtwyZuZ7lJ0hLvs9dTgivMJ/d0r/Fbe4H8n0 La1Scb1z94DDERnaSIwhjxnNgDjh2pBqyK9KFvKwVZ6epG5weHdOP1m7RQUdoKGZm1+4 LGrlsWmroQhEcK97/t6ZvknQ+5g5twyIrHdT9JWQVoeoTCHuDTEK6O/s8A358293olZL 79sHHRwzzk7mtuARgg0OdK7WudtuaTdFpLs+xrwLVwSgeIwggJ558Q/jlIQu/0tFDWOl Fckg== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of jcm@jonmasters.org designates 173.255.233.168 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=jcm@jonmasters.org Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of jcm@jonmasters.org designates 173.255.233.168 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=jcm@jonmasters.org To: Timur Tabi , lkml Cc: Shanker Donthineni , Ard Biesheuvel , Catalin Marinas , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Will Deacon , stable@vger.kernel.org, stable-commits@vger.kernel.org References: <1518616386206238@kroah.com> From: Jon Masters Organization: World Organi{s,z}ation Of Broken Dreams Message-ID: <5be20f44-b750-7250-76a8-03b6c39bb2fe@jonmasters.org> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 18:57:12 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 82.111.139.164 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jcm@jonmasters.org Subject: Re: Patch "[Variant 2/Spectre-v2] arm64: Implement branch predictor hardening for Falkor" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:31:22 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on edison.jonmasters.org) X-getmail-retrieved-from-mailbox: INBOX X-GMAIL-LABELS: =?utf-8?b?IlxcSW1wb3J0YW50Ig==?= X-GMAIL-THRID: =?utf-8?q?1592384775145883169?= X-GMAIL-MSGID: =?utf-8?q?1592875691663758684?= X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 02/14/2018 11:16 AM, Timur Tabi wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 7:53 AM, wrote: >> >> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled >> >> [Variant 2/Spectre-v2] arm64: Implement branch predictor hardening for Falkor >> >> to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: >> http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary >> >> The filename of the patch is: >> arm64-implement-branch-predictor-hardening-for-falkor.patch >> and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. >> >> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, >> please let know about it. > > Please note that there is a follow-on patch, also from Shanker, that > fixes this patch (it was slightly mangled when merged into 4.16-rc1): > > https://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg633726.html > > I would love for it to be included in 4.14.20, but it hasn't been > merged into Linus' tree yet. I will send a patch request when it does > land in 4.16-rc2. That has now landed in Linus's tree. Jon.