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Date:   Mon, 30 May 2022 17:25:41 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.18 147/159] ARM: 9201/1: spectre-bhb: rely on
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On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 03:32:47PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> AUTONAK
> 
> As discussed before, please disregard all patches authored by me when
> running the bot.

Ok, but why wasn't this spectre-bhb commit asked to be backported to
stable in the first place?  Do older kernels not need these types of
fixes?

thanks,

greg k-h