This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled x86/speculation: Add RETPOLINE_AMD support to the inline asm CALL_NOSPEC variant to the 4.9-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: x86-speculation-add-retpoline_amd-support-to-the-inline-asm-call_nospec-variant.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.