This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/bugs: Drop one "mitigation" from dmesg
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:
x86bugs_Drop_one_mitigation_from_dmesg.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.
Subject: x86/bugs: Drop one "mitigation" from dmesg
From: Borislav Petkov bp@xxxxxxx
Date: Fri Jan 26 13:11:39 2018 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov bp@xxxxxxx
commit 55fa19d3e51f33d9cd4056d25836d93abf9438db
Make
[ 0.031118] Spectre V2 mitigation: Mitigation: Full generic retpoline
into
[ 0.031118] Spectre V2: Mitigation: Full generic retpoline
to reduce the mitigation mitigations strings.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: riel@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: jikos@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: keescook@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: pjt@xxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180126121139.31959-5-bp@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ static const char *spectre_v2_strings[]
};
#undef pr_fmt
-#define pr_fmt(fmt) "Spectre V2 mitigation: " fmt
+#define pr_fmt(fmt) "Spectre V2 : " fmt
static enum spectre_v2_mitigation spectre_v2_enabled = SPECTRE_V2_NONE;
static bool spectre_v2_bad_module;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bp@xxxxxxx are
queue-4.14/x86pti_Do_not_enable_PTI_on_CPUs_which_are_not_vulnerable_to_Meltdown.patch
queue-4.14/x86cpufeatures_Add_Intel_feature_bits_for_Speculation_Control.patch
queue-4.14/x86alternative_Print_unadorned_pointers.patch
queue-4.14/x86cpufeatures_Add_CPUID_7_EDX_CPUID_leaf.patch
queue-4.14/x86bugs_Drop_one_mitigation_from_dmesg.patch
queue-4.14/x86speculation_Simplify_indirect_branch_prediction_barrier().patch
queue-4.14/x86nospec_Fix_header_guards_names.patch
queue-4.14/x86retpoline_Simplify_vmexit_fill_RSB().patch
queue-4.14/x86cpufeatures_Clean_up_Spectre_v2_related_CPUID_flags.patch