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From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: dan.carpenter@oracle.com, bp@suse.de, dwmw@amazon.co.uk,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, karahmed@amazon.de, luto@kernel.org,
	mingo@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>, <stable-commits@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Patch "x86/spectre: Fix an error message" has been added to the 4.15-stable tree
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 11:26:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <151912240783213@kroah.com> (raw)


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

    x86/spectre: Fix an error message

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-spectre-fix-an-error-message.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 9de29eac8d2189424d81c0d840cd0469aa3d41c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 10:14:17 +0300
Subject: x86/spectre: Fix an error message

From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

commit 9de29eac8d2189424d81c0d840cd0469aa3d41c8 upstream.

If i == ARRAY_SIZE(mitigation_options) then we accidentally print
garbage from one space beyond the end of the mitigation_options[] array.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 9005c6834c0f ("x86/spectre: Simplify spectre_v2 command line parsing")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180214071416.GA26677@mwanda
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ static enum spectre_v2_mitigation_cmd __
 		}
 
 		if (i >= ARRAY_SIZE(mitigation_options)) {
-			pr_err("unknown option (%s). Switching to AUTO select\n", mitigation_options[i].option);
+			pr_err("unknown option (%s). Switching to AUTO select\n", arg);
 			return SPECTRE_V2_CMD_AUTO;
 		}
 	}


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@oracle.com are

queue-4.15/x86-spectre-fix-an-error-message.patch

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