From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Cyrus-Session-Id: sloti22d1t05-1833978-1518974747-2-13394531806657417369 X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 3.0 X-Spam-known-sender: no X-Spam-score: 0.0 X-Spam-hits: BAYES_00 -1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS 0.001, ME_NOAUTH 0.01, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI -5, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD -0.01, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY 0.001, LANGUAGES en, BAYES_USED global, SA_VERSION 3.4.0 X-Spam-source: IP='209.132.180.67', Host='vger.kernel.org', Country='US', FromHeader='org', MailFrom='org' X-Spam-charsets: plain='UTF-8' X-Attached: signature.asc X-Resolved-to: greg@kroah.com X-Delivered-to: greg@kroah.com X-Mail-from: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; cv=none; d=messagingengine.com; s=arctest; t=1518974746; b=QhmWNbYg30A0FGnHBYA98jEPqH3KrkKzZjLaMTe4g96Ykir CoWEuoGBL/uN8k5eO713AfLiVdVeSJwiC2OFhxWLDNteWPwVLQXBdK3gebmaJbDb A88Ccy7n3mxiCM2Os1KU7vh4ASn6TlHQjrGPV4w9jWzHloVQowt1nVt4HItE0ToG YeOj6jct1JG7NchoY0FGS2gnAK6sbz/4p53IYeoTqdO+U0/Ciar0S/Obl+/ITTaL Z5BoNhi9V24xeU++2xFfNNPIwnP1q9i/uEzkDrE9XXyvrE0JFhe7gE6va+ZI5Yr1 zE3gZp5Ukk7xrOdlzj8IyCuGGsY1opAJl0cdevw== ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:subject:from:to:cc:date :in-reply-to:references:content-type:mime-version:sender :list-id; s=arctest; t=1518974746; bh=KUYnHoLGeLX1B8jUngMYqTnjOa BbosVNXSKqVU0/nP0=; b=C3l/2s6SNLWj8YybYkR846YRm9GjNYiFVX8lmp9gDX Wb3n7hxhVWbgsLMaDYPiKFIsH/66wjYq64563LJd+vs5duyc2oAbI/4pHgu4rIjC gkcmeCMMcLnHqTewrbcL2ObHndp0rpDw4KjEB+irIUPZRQ2uEHeDHVl6NtNJ293T E20CIXLHRuUYibIWjan+WiCguW52sUt3O+RqscXC06i/a66r//aTJMvB5QoB23K8 r2kqRJa6DeGO+W4lRWEsV52Z3BnF7HSFWmR5aaplsNgUklxDY8OJohUGz2TBCO3i JDJ4aj0EGvWJh8UELt1Ql3iPgYSFnaDGmhL7LLT8Yp3w== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; mx6.messagingengine.com; arc=none (no signatures found); dkim=none (no signatures found); dmarc=none (p=none,has-list-id=yes,d=none) header.from=debian.org; iprev=pass policy.iprev=209.132.180.67 (vger.kernel.org); spf=none smtp.mailfrom=stable-owner@vger.kernel.org smtp.helo=vger.kernel.org; x-aligned-from=fail; x-ptr=pass x-ptr-helo=vger.kernel.org x-ptr-lookup=vger.kernel.org; x-return-mx=pass smtp.domain=vger.kernel.org smtp.result=pass smtp_org.domain=kernel.org smtp_org.result=pass smtp_is_org_domain=no header.domain=debian.org header.result=pass header_is_org_domain=yes Authentication-Results: mx6.messagingengine.com; arc=none (no signatures found); dkim=none (no signatures found); dmarc=none (p=none,has-list-id=yes,d=none) header.from=debian.org; iprev=pass policy.iprev=209.132.180.67 (vger.kernel.org); spf=none smtp.mailfrom=stable-owner@vger.kernel.org smtp.helo=vger.kernel.org; x-aligned-from=fail; x-ptr=pass x-ptr-helo=vger.kernel.org x-ptr-lookup=vger.kernel.org; x-return-mx=pass smtp.domain=vger.kernel.org smtp.result=pass smtp_org.domain=kernel.org smtp_org.result=pass smtp_is_org_domain=no header.domain=debian.org header.result=pass header_is_org_domain=yes Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751436AbeBRRZm (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Feb 2018 12:25:42 -0500 Received: from pic75-3-78-194-244-226.fbxo.proxad.net ([78.194.244.226]:44830 "EHLO mail.corsac.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751422AbeBRRZl (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Feb 2018 12:25:41 -0500 Message-ID: <1518974732.2542.1.camel@debian.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.9 00/92] 4.9.81-stable review From: Yves-Alexis Perez To: Guenter Roeck , Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, shuahkh@osg.samsung.com, patches@kernelci.org, ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk, lkft-triage@lists.linaro.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 18:25:32 +0100 In-Reply-To: <3075ec06-df9e-3532-82fa-cb2ca227c86b@roeck-us.net> References: <20180209133931.211869118@linuxfoundation.org> <556ea00b-e265-7f14-395c-c5e6629bf194@roeck-us.net> <20180213093651.GA29675@kroah.com> <7c1ed8b1-bd9c-4b9f-051b-f9f19591cdbb@roeck-us.net> <20180213152907.GA29190@kroah.com> <1518874313.9465.1.camel@debian.org> <20180217134556.GC28145@kroah.com> <3075ec06-df9e-3532-82fa-cb2ca227c86b@roeck-us.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha256"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-BKr7lhYWIC7x2c/AG70B" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.26.5-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org X-getmail-retrieved-from-mailbox: INBOX X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-BKr7lhYWIC7x2c/AG70B Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2018-02-17 at 09:35 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: > Hmm, that chunk really doesn't do what the original patch is supposed to = do, > meaning it won't provide the vulnerability protection it is supposed to p= rovide > (AFAICS that is Meltdown). Just a note in case anyone is concerned about > actually providing that protection. Right now my concern was really about fixing 4.9.81/4.9.82 build failure on powerpc. Whether the patches backported in those two releases are enough to fix Meltdown or not is a different thing indeed (and an information I'd be glad to have too). 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