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

[Timur Tabi]

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.