From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 19:23:46 +0100 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Timur Tabi Cc: lkml , Shanker Donthineni , Ard Biesheuvel , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , stable@vger.kernel.org, stable-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Patch "[Variant 2/Spectre-v2] arm64: Implement branch predictor hardening for Falkor" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree Message-ID: <20180214182346.GD4611@kroah.com> References: <1518616386206238@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 10:16:51AM -0600, Timur Tabi wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 7:53 AM, wrote: > > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > [Variant 2/Spectre-v2] arm64: Implement branch predictor hardening for Falkor > > > > 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: > > arm64-implement-branch-predictor-hardening-for-falkor.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 know about it. > > Please note that there is a follow-on patch, also from Shanker, that > fixes this patch (it was slightly mangled when merged into 4.16-rc1): > > https://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg633726.html > > I would love for it to be included in 4.14.20, but it hasn't been > merged into Linus' tree yet. I will send a patch request when it does > land in 4.16-rc2. There's nothing I can do unless it's in Linus's tree :)