Re: [PATCH 0/7] Various Spectre-v1 fixes

[Dan Williams]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 2:33 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 07:03:44PM -0600, Michal Hocko wrote:
>> On Fri 20-04-18 15:14:07, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> > These fix a number of perf, x86 and sched cases where we have user controlled
>> > array dereferences.  All were found by Dan's recent Smatch update.
>>
>> Do we want to mark all of these for stable?
>
> If we all agree that any (speculative) user-controlled array index --
> irrespective of the existence of the second load/store that would
> complete the gadget -- needs fixing and thus all these patches are
> 'good', then yes, that makes sense.
>
> Given yours is the only response so far, I suspect we're good on all
> that :-)

+1 from me for -stable.