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

[Michal Hocko]

On Mon 23-04-18 11:33:21, Peter Zijlstra 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.

Well, I would rather be on the safe side (have I heard security by
fear?). So if those patches are landing in upstream then I would vote to
mark them for stable. They should be trivial to backport and shouldn't
cause regressions that makes them more suitable stable candidates than
many I have seen recently...

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs