From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: 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 Received: from scapa.corsac.net (unknown [IPv6:2a01:e34:ec2f:4e20:6af7:28ff:fe8d:2119]) by mail.corsac.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5108794 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2018 18:25:39 +0100 (CET) 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" Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: stable-owner@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). Regards, --=20 Yves-Alexis --=-BKr7lhYWIC7x2c/AG70B Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAABCAAdFiEE8vi34Qgfo83x35gF3rYcyPpXRFsFAlqJtwwACgkQ3rYcyPpX RFuHowf+PndUv3zmWA0Z1NhtABmlpTgfipv3QFh27SJlQPdD7IaPDY6QiYqQws3k FKrjYAihPKGBsEUUvxvAMmQE+MVgEJWz0GEJNyv4w7dPfc7N+NvuDNtRlB/ob6r2 xNT5pFjc+6dAbZwmz1uBfKxypbjc/rhDe/0y8Z4oJmXzsq4mMCQhC1xVzqf/stMw rFpOTxlFCg3f1uY/RC3k9HsSNpp2IJdSM4BJh16Ustj8lGXLAed9hI6TmAFGh+fW znZSor2P03YefrK3Ibot4gRu/G8zvYjTIQtK0A5LmB+yFmISVoVvA60h3KNJPbva 5/GQ7uG/Xx/M/zrP8HFLdr86vbhHjg== =IDiu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-BKr7lhYWIC7x2c/AG70B--