From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from foss.arm.com ([217.140.101.70]:47356 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752784AbeBINv1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Feb 2018 08:51:27 -0500 Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 13:51:31 +0000 From: Will Deacon To: Greg KH Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] arm64 spectre and meltdown mitigations for -stable Message-ID: <20180209135131.GC11309@arm.com> References: <20180209134811.GB11309@arm.com> <20180209134957.GA1677@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180209134957.GA1677@kroah.com> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 02:49:57PM +0100, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 01:48:11PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote: > > Hi Greg, > > > > I've put together a tag which includes all of the upstream arm64 spectre and > > meltdown mitigations based on v4.15. Please could you consider taking this > > into the 4.15 stable tree? > > > > I understand that Ard (cc'd) is using this stack to create a version for 4.14 > > too. > > > > Note that there are two commits in here that are already in stable: > > > > 9c9345fb26ff [Variant 1/Spectre-v1] Documentation: Document array_index_nospec > > 60d6c8a8e54e [Variant 1/Spectre-v1] array_index_nospec: Sanitize speculative array de-references > > > > so you can skip those when applying. > > > > Please shout if you run into trouble. > > Ah, nice, thanks for this. I'll use this for the next 4.15.y kernel > release after the one I _just_ sent out for review a few minutes ago. Cool, sorry for the unfortunate timing. This only hit mainline last night. Will