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Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2018 16:15:54 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.18 14/83] ARM: make lookup_processor_type() non-__init
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On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 02:28:18PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As I've already fed back to Sascha about this, this patch on its own
> does not fix anything, and is not a stable kernel candidate without
> a patch that makes use of it (iow, the spectre fixes.)  It is a
> preparatory patch for mainline commit 383fb3ee8024.
> 
> Every commit in:
> 
> $ git rev-list v4.16..383fb3ee8024
> 
> are the ARM spectre fixes, which are being back-ported by David Long.
> 
> Please do not cherry-pick commits from within this series for _any_
> stable kernel, but please wait for David to send you the back-ported
> patches.

Ugh, ok, that's a bunch here.

Sasha, let me go dig all of these out now.

Russell, thanks for letting me know.

greg k-h