Re: Patch "[Variant 2/Spectre-v2] arm64: Implement branch predictor hardening for Falkor" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Feb 20 2018 - 05:49:38 EST


On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 11:47:38AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 06:57:12PM -0500, Jon Masters wrote:
> > On 02/14/2018 11:16 AM, Timur Tabi wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 7:53 AM, <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
> >
> > That has now landed in Linus's tree.
>
> What is the git commit id for it?

Nevermind, I found it myself...