Re: Patch "[Variant 2/Spectre-v2] arm64: Implement branch predictor hardening for Falkor" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

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On 02/14/2018 11:16 AM, Timur Tabi wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 7:53 AM,  <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
>>
>>     [Variant 2/Spectre-v2] arm64: Implement branch predictor hardening for Falkor
>>
>> 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:
>>      arm64-implement-branch-predictor-hardening-for-falkor.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.
> 
> Please note that there is a follow-on patch, also from Shanker, that
> fixes this patch (it was slightly mangled when merged into 4.16-rc1):
> 
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg633726.html
> 
> I would love for it to be included in 4.14.20, but it hasn't been
> merged into Linus' tree yet.  I will send a patch request when it does
> land in 4.16-rc2.

That has now landed in Linus's tree.

Jon.



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