Based on the commit message, I think this needs to be backported to stable branches: commit 1d91c1d2c80cb70e2e553845e278b87a960c04da Author: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Feb 16 13:20:42 2018 -0800 nospec: Kill array_index_nospec_mask_check() Is that right? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Software Developer, Codethink Ltd.