Patch "x86/entry/64: Remove the unused 'icebp' macro" has been added to the 4.15-stable tree

Patch "x86/entry/64: Remove the unused 'icebp' macro" has been added to the 4.15-stable tree

[gregkh]

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

    x86/entry/64: Remove the unused 'icebp' macro

to the 4.15-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:
     x86-entry-64-remove-the-unused-icebp-macro.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.15 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.


>From b498c261107461d5c42140dfddd05df83d8ca078 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 21:13:18 +0100
Subject: x86/entry/64: Remove the unused 'icebp' macro

From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>

commit b498c261107461d5c42140dfddd05df83d8ca078 upstream.

That macro was touched around 2.5.8 times, judging by the full history
linux repo, but it was unused even then. Get rid of it already.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux@dominikbrodowski.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180212201318.GD14640@pd.tnic
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/entry/calling.h |    4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/entry/calling.h
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/calling.h
@@ -159,10 +159,6 @@ For 32-bit we have the following convent
 	.if \pop_rdi
 	popq %rdi
 	.endif
-	.endm
-
-	.macro icebp
-	.byte 0xf1
 .endm
 
 /*


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

queue-4.15/x86-spectre-fix-an-error-message.patch
queue-4.15/x86-entry-64-remove-the-unused-icebp-macro.patch
queue-4.15/x86-kexec-make-kexec-mostly-work-in-5-level-paging-mode.patch