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Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 20:13:39 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Security fixes for 4.4
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On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 06:51:19PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> I've backported a number of fixes for security issues affecting 4.4-
> stable.��All of these are already fixed in the newer stable branches.
> 
> For the BPF fix, I verified that the self-tests (taken from 4.14)
> didn't regress and temporarily added logging to check that the
> mitigation is applied when needed.
> 
> For the KVM changes, I verified that IBPB/IBRS are now exposed to and
> used by a guest on Intel hardware.
> 
> I also verified that the current self-tests for timers, usercopy and vm
> didn't regress.

Thanks a lot for these!

All now queued up.

greg k-h