Patch "x86/bugs: Drop one "mitigation" from dmesg" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

Patch "x86/bugs: Drop one "mitigation" from dmesg" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    x86/bugs: Drop one "mitigation" from dmesg

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     x86bugs_Drop_one_mitigation_from_dmesg.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


Subject: x86/bugs: Drop one "mitigation" from dmesg
From: Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de
Date: Fri Jan 26 13:11:39 2018 +0100

From: Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de

commit 55fa19d3e51f33d9cd4056d25836d93abf9438db

Make

[    0.031118] Spectre V2 mitigation: Mitigation: Full generic retpoline

into

[    0.031118] Spectre V2: Mitigation: Full generic retpoline

to reduce the mitigation mitigations strings.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: riel@redhat.com
Cc: ak@linux.intel.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: jikos@kernel.org
Cc: luto@amacapital.net
Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: keescook@google.com
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
Cc: pjt@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180126121139.31959-5-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ static const char *spectre_v2_strings[]
 };
 
 #undef pr_fmt
-#define pr_fmt(fmt)     "Spectre V2 mitigation: " fmt
+#define pr_fmt(fmt)     "Spectre V2 : " fmt
 
 static enum spectre_v2_mitigation spectre_v2_enabled = SPECTRE_V2_NONE;
 static bool spectre_v2_bad_module;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bp@suse.de are

queue-4.14/x86pti_Do_not_enable_PTI_on_CPUs_which_are_not_vulnerable_to_Meltdown.patch
queue-4.14/x86cpufeatures_Add_Intel_feature_bits_for_Speculation_Control.patch
queue-4.14/x86alternative_Print_unadorned_pointers.patch
queue-4.14/x86cpufeatures_Add_CPUID_7_EDX_CPUID_leaf.patch
queue-4.14/x86bugs_Drop_one_mitigation_from_dmesg.patch
queue-4.14/x86speculation_Simplify_indirect_branch_prediction_barrier().patch
queue-4.14/x86nospec_Fix_header_guards_names.patch
queue-4.14/x86retpoline_Simplify_vmexit_fill_RSB().patch
queue-4.14/x86cpufeatures_Clean_up_Spectre_v2_related_CPUID_flags.patch