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[209.132.180.67]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id t85si439343pfj.296.2018.02.19.15.57.54; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 15:58:08 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 209.132.180.67 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.132.180.67; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 209.132.180.67 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932265AbeBSX5S (ORCPT + 99 others); Mon, 19 Feb 2018 18:57:18 -0500 Received: from edison.jonmasters.org ([173.255.233.168]:60032 "EHLO edison.jonmasters.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932248AbeBSX5R (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Feb 2018 18:57:17 -0500 Received: from [82.111.139.164] (helo=washington.bos.jonmasters.org) by edison.jonmasters.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1envJ5-00073w-1T; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 23:57:15 +0000 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 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on edison.jonmasters.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 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) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.