From: WANG Chao <chao.wang@ucloud.cn>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
srinivas.eeda@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] treewide: replace RETPOLINE with CONFIG_RETPOLINE
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2019 11:48:52 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190109034852.GA51165@WANG-Chaos-MacBook-Pro.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181221104705.GA4750@zn.tnic>
On 12/21/18 at 11:47P, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 05:33:47PM +0800, WANG Chao wrote:
> > On 12/11/18 at 12:37P, WANG Chao wrote:
> > > Since commit 4cd24de3a098 ("x86/retpoline: Make CONFIG_RETPOLINE depend
> > > on compiler support"), RETPOLINE has been replaced by CONFIG_RETPOLINE.
> > >
> > > Fixes: 4cd24de3a098 ("x86/retpoline: Make CONFIG_RETPOLINE depend on compiler support")
> > > Signed-off-by: WANG Chao <chao.wang@ucloud.cn>
> >
> > ping ...
>
> This one somehow slipped through the cracks... :-\
>
> Ok, let's see: this could be relevant for the case when a module built
> with a compiler which doesn't support retpolines, gets loaded on a
> system which is built with retpolines.
>
> Which is pretty seldom as the majority of setups out there should have
> a retpoline-enabled compiler. And should not allow loading external
> modules anyway, but that's a different story.
>
> So, this close to the merge window, I'm inclined to delay this one after
> it and have it take the x86/urgent fixes path. Unless someone screams
> and says that patch breaks his system. I haven't seen any reports about
> it so far so...
Hi, Boris.
Please pick up this one in x86/urgent.
Thanks
Chao
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-09 3:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-10 16:37 [PATCH] treewide: replace RETPOLINE with CONFIG_RETPOLINE WANG Chao
2018-12-12 8:14 ` Zhenzhong Duan
2018-12-12 13:10 ` Masahiro Yamada
2018-12-21 9:33 ` WANG Chao
2018-12-21 10:47 ` Borislav Petkov
2018-12-21 11:00 ` WANG Chao
2018-12-21 15:48 ` David Laight
2019-01-09 3:48 ` WANG Chao [this message]
2019-01-09 10:04 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86, modpost: Replace last remnants of " tip-bot for WANG Chao
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