From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Cyrus-Session-Id: sloti22d1t05-1546708-1519218831-2-7745795576996449289 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, LANGUAGES en, BAYES_USED global, SA_VERSION 3.4.0 X-Spam-source: IP='209.132.180.67', Host='vger.kernel.org', Country='CN', FromHeader='org', MailFrom='org' X-Spam-charsets: plain='us-ascii' 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=1519218831; b=hJi1M42HnyDQJNK22Bc9QUErYWZJ5G+sgrkccEflpw9ALB8 ajXo95snmYfq7giE/DWx3mmLGw9Og7Sltkqw/Tib4fKpHL0JMFyw6q7S6xgwzPl4 b2Y6etRdACLrTavUd98mx9w/GIGdFhzRhLqt/pmTJrNgERVRxpaaE4JWfyKt+h/Q FeyrUM1wLFRtDKcwX9CuVV+G0ydoQGfA8QEepOng2EdKUV7O3JLaU+kZ5n/Zm1// xEvf9RqpUzFEVbav11/UYFK8PY/BBvTaZK7ZfJC5QrzJw0wJg/RC0yLepbAdKZ6n G0MdBwnb8p+TjEsYmndeNVBXMXPyXZsYJTUbxTg== ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id :references:mime-version:content-type:in-reply-to:sender :list-id; s=arctest; t=1519218831; bh=5y0k7c21+6WRpHIbcn0kpCB0Tu 3+vYiooNLuPXIWqJQ=; b=bLjyEV6+msZH+tT1er/2oq9ZEWni0VWkZVqeNDjehv bFPXctvxTMMTEyTvyAnKujSBhFVdFYY2GBBfywSWVEJf42fxMfJNkoTpGuabqKHG kHnEG34sBAskRAgbsZTVxQblacMSQP6tra9ttATlDZlM6jYw4U6Rt8QSk9PkQonB HnZDxye8NTtZEPbLh0FdFwtArW/b8+IWSrolLUuwyRrrFW0DbpkhPJcdsp/iPd8A oumZTZtkWn5AdmbA+PEmQRjiIX+XEjZSYjXpgRWo+kddLJ0aJA1casiCtfAjG0Pc 0ESz+sMRrgPnzfw2rlS/3jCkdcht3PV6AtOL9cQEsCzw== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; mx2.messagingengine.com; arc=none (no signatures found); dkim=none (no signatures found); dmarc=none (p=none,has-list-id=yes,d=none) header.from=linuxfoundation.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=linuxfoundation.org header.result=pass header_is_org_domain=yes Authentication-Results: mx2.messagingengine.com; arc=none (no signatures found); dkim=none (no signatures found); dmarc=none (p=none,has-list-id=yes,d=none) header.from=linuxfoundation.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=linuxfoundation.org header.result=pass header_is_org_domain=yes Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754589AbeBUNNe (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Feb 2018 08:13:34 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:46078 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754583AbeBUNNd (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Feb 2018 08:13:33 -0500 Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 13:53:40 +0100 From: Greg KH To: Will Deacon Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] arm64 spectre and meltdown mitigations for -stable Message-ID: <20180221125340.GA15211@kroah.com> References: <20180209134811.GB11309@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180209134811.GB11309@arm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.3 (2018-01-21) 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: On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 01:48:11PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote: > Hi Greg, > > I've put together a tag which includes all of the upstream arm64 spectre and > meltdown mitigations based on v4.15. Please could you consider taking this > into the 4.15 stable tree? > > I understand that Ard (cc'd) is using this stack to create a version for 4.14 > too. Do you know of anyone working on backporting this patch series to older stable trees (i.e. 4.9.y and 4.4.y and possibly 3.18.y?) I had some requests by some chip manufacturers who were wondering about this, as they seem to be stuck on older kernels (of their own doing, not our fault at all...) If not, no big deal, I'll just tell them they need to do the work themselves if they care about those old kernel trees :) thanks, greg k-h