* [stable] nospec: Kill array_index_nospec_mask_check()
@ 2018-03-08 16:13 Ben Hutchings
2018-03-08 16:17 ` Dan Williams
2018-03-08 16:29 ` Ben Hutchings
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From: Ben Hutchings @ 2018-03-08 16:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dan Williams, Linus Torvalds; +Cc: linux-arch
Based on the commit message, I think this needs to be backported to
stable branches:
commit 1d91c1d2c80cb70e2e553845e278b87a960c04da
Author: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Date: Fri Feb 16 13:20:42 2018 -0800
nospec: Kill array_index_nospec_mask_check()
Is that right?
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
Software Developer, Codethink Ltd.
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* Re: [stable] nospec: Kill array_index_nospec_mask_check()
2018-03-08 16:13 [stable] nospec: Kill array_index_nospec_mask_check() Ben Hutchings
@ 2018-03-08 16:17 ` Dan Williams
2018-03-08 16:29 ` Ben Hutchings
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From: Dan Williams @ 2018-03-08 16:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ben Hutchings; +Cc: Linus Torvalds, linux-arch
On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 8:13 AM, Ben Hutchings
<ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk> wrote:
> Based on the commit message, I think this needs to be backported to
> stable branches:
>
> commit 1d91c1d2c80cb70e2e553845e278b87a960c04da
> Author: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> Date: Fri Feb 16 13:20:42 2018 -0800
>
> nospec: Kill array_index_nospec_mask_check()
>
> Is that right?
Yes, especially for 32-bit archs this macro is broken.
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* Re: [stable] nospec: Kill array_index_nospec_mask_check()
2018-03-08 16:13 [stable] nospec: Kill array_index_nospec_mask_check() Ben Hutchings
2018-03-08 16:17 ` Dan Williams
@ 2018-03-08 16:29 ` Ben Hutchings
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From: Ben Hutchings @ 2018-03-08 16:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dan Williams, Linus Torvalds; +Cc: linux-arch
On Thu, 2018-03-08 at 16:13 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Based on the commit message, I think this needs to be backported to
> stable branches:
>
> commit 1d91c1d2c80cb70e2e553845e278b87a960c04da
> Author: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> Date: Fri Feb 16 13:20:42 2018 -0800
>
> nospec: Kill array_index_nospec_mask_check()
>
> Is that right?
Also this one:
commit eb6174f6d1be16b19cfa43dac296bfed003ce1a6
Author: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Date: Fri Feb 16 13:20:54 2018 -0800
nospec: Include <asm/barrier.h> dependency
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
Software Developer, Codethink Ltd.
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