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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.9 00/14] 4.9.309-rc1 review
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
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From:   James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
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Date:   Mon, 28 Mar 2022 15:33:36 +0100
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Hi Florian,

On 26/03/2022 00:00, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 3/25/22 14:31, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>> On 3/25/22 08:04, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.309 release.
>>> There are 14 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
>>> to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
>>> let me know.
>>>
>>> Responses should be made by Sun, 27 Mar 2022 15:04:08 +0000.
>>> Anything received after that time might be too late.
>>>
>>> The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
>>>     https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.9.309-rc1.gz
>>> or in the git tree and branch at:
>>>     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.9.y
>>> and the diffstat can be found below.
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>>
>>> greg k-h
>>
>> On ARCH_BRCMSTB, using 32-bit and 64-bit ARM kernels:
>>
>> Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
>>
>> PS: is there any reason why the Spectre BHB patches from here are not part of
>> linux-stable/linux-4.9.y?
> 
> Meant to provide this link, from here:
> 
> https://gitlab.arm.com/linux-arm/linux-jm/-/tree/bhb/v3/v4.9.302

These were from before the disclosure date. Since then the 'backport everything' approach
was investigated more, but we decided not to go that way.
These trees need the bugs we subsequently discovered fixing, retesting and reposting. I
was on holiday last week. I plan to get to it this week.


Thanks,

James