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 4.9-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-bugs-drop-one-mitigation-from-dmesg.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.
>From foo@baz Thu Feb 8 03:30:27 CET 2018
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 13:11:39 +0100
Subject: x86/bugs: Drop one "mitigation" from dmesg
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
(cherry picked from 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: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ 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-4.9/x86-cpufeatures-add-intel-feature-bits-for-speculation-control.patch
queue-4.9/x86-retpoline-simplify-vmexit_fill_rsb.patch
queue-4.9/x86-cpufeatures-clean-up-spectre-v2-related-cpuid-flags.patch
queue-4.9/x86-cpufeatures-add-cpuid_7_edx-cpuid-leaf.patch
queue-4.9/x86-microcode-amd-do-not-load-when-running-on-a-hypervisor.patch
queue-4.9/x86-nospec-fix-header-guards-names.patch
queue-4.9/x86-alternative-print-unadorned-pointers.patch
queue-4.9/x86-spectre-fix-spelling-mistake-vunerable-vulnerable.patch
queue-4.9/x86-pti-mark-constant-arrays-as-__initconst.patch
queue-4.9/x86-bugs-drop-one-mitigation-from-dmesg.patch
queue-4.9/x86-pti-do-not-enable-pti-on-cpus-which-are-not-vulnerable-to-meltdown.patch