Re: [GIT PULL] arm64 spectre and meltdown mitigations for v4.14-stable

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On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 02:34:01PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 14 February 2018 at 14:24, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 14 February 2018 at 13:54, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 11:38:01AM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> >>> Hi Greg,
> >>>
> >>> As mentioned by Will, I have created the v4.14 counterpart of his stable
> >>> backport of the arm64/ARM Spectre/Meltdown mitigations that have been pulled
> >>> into v4.16-rc1.
> >>>
> >>> Given that this is the v4.15 version backported to v4.14, I have removed any
> >>> mention of 'conflicts' from the commit logs as they are now ambiguous. The
> >>> patches applied surprisingly cleanly, I only needed to drop two patches that
> >>> are already in (the same ones Will mentioned in his PR), and drop another one
> >>> dealing with SPE, support for which did not exist yet in v4.14. I also included
> >>> the patch
> >>>
> >>>   arm64: move TASK_* definitions to <asm/processor.h>
> >>>
> >>> from v4.15 to make Robin's Spectre v1 patches apply more cleanly.
> >>
> >> I've queued these up now, but if you could pull the whole quilt tree and
> >> verify I got things right, that would be great.  There was some
> >> conflicts with a few previous patches I had already queued up that
> >> touched some "Falkor" errata code.
> >>
> >> Specifically 932b50c7c1c65e6f23002e075b97ee083c4a9e71 "arm64: Add
> >> software workaround for Falkor erratum 1041" is the offending patch.  I
> >> think I resolved the merge issues properly, but verifying this would be
> >> wonderful.
> >>
> >
> > No, the build is broken now. I will investigate.
> 
> Your patch 977c3d2cb684e143a18e1564fbf5ecf7576a1c98
> 
> arm64: Move post_ttbr_update_workaround to C code
> 
> removes the pre_disable_mmu_workaround macro from asm/assembler.h but
> it should only remove post_ttbr_update_workaround
> 
> Once I add that back, things seem to build and run as expected.

Can you provide a "fixed" version of just this patch so I know to get it
correct?

thanks,

greg k-h



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