Re: [PATCH 4.9 00/16] V4.9 backport of more 32-bit arm spectre patches

Sasha Levin
2019-02-17T19:09:54Z

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 09:49:14AM -0500, David Long wrote:
>From: "David A. Long" <dave.long@linaro.org>
>
>V4.9 backport of spectre patches from Russell M. King's spectre branch.
>Patches have been kvm-unit-test'ed on an arndale, run through kernelci, and
>handed off to ARM for functional testing.
>
>Julien Thierry (9):
> ARM: 8789/1: signal: copy registers using __copy_to_user()
> ARM: 8791/1: vfp: use __copy_to_user() when saving VFP state
> ARM: 8792/1: oabi-compat: copy oabi events using __copy_to_user()
> ARM: 8793/1: signal: replace __put_user_error with __put_user
> ARM: 8794/1: uaccess: Prevent speculative use of the current
> addr_limit
> ARM: 8795/1: spectre-v1.1: use put_user() for __put_user()
> ARM: 8796/1: spectre-v1,v1.1: provide helpers for address sanitization
> ARM: 8797/1: spectre-v1.1: harden __copy_to_user
> ARM: 8810/1: vfp: Fix wrong assignement to ufp_exc
>
>Russell King (7):
> ARM: make lookup_processor_type() non-__init
> ARM: split out processor lookup
> ARM: clean up per-processor check_bugs method call
> ARM: add PROC_VTABLE and PROC_TABLE macros
> ARM: spectre-v2: per-CPU vtables to work around big.Little systems
> ARM: ensure that processor vtables is not lost after boot
> ARM: fix the cockup in the previous patch

Queued for 4.9, thank you.

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Thanks,
Sasha