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

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 10:16:51AM -0600, 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.

There's nothing I can do unless it's in Linus's tree :)