From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:46078 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754583AbeBUNNd (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Feb 2018 08:13:33 -0500 Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 13:53:40 +0100 From: Greg KH To: Will Deacon 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: <20180221125340.GA15211@kroah.com> References: <20180209134811.GB11309@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180209134811.GB11309@arm.com> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. Do you know of anyone working on backporting this patch series to older stable trees (i.e. 4.9.y and 4.4.y and possibly 3.18.y?) I had some requests by some chip manufacturers who were wondering about this, as they seem to be stuck on older kernels (of their own doing, not our fault at all...) If not, no big deal, I'll just tell them they need to do the work themselves if they care about those old kernel trees :) thanks, greg k-h