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

[Catalin Marinas]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 07:23:46PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 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 :)

It will land in 4.16-rc2 (already queued on my local tree).

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Catalin