This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/entry/64: Remove the unused 'icebp' macro
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:
x86-entry-64-remove-the-unused-icebp-macro.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.
>From b498c261107461d5c42140dfddd05df83d8ca078 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 21:13:18 +0100
Subject: x86/entry/64: Remove the unused 'icebp' macro
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
commit b498c261107461d5c42140dfddd05df83d8ca078 upstream.
That macro was touched around 2.5.8 times, judging by the full history
linux repo, but it was unused even then. Get rid of it already.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180212201318.GD14640@xxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/entry/calling.h | 4 ----
1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/entry/calling.h
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/calling.h
@@ -159,10 +159,6 @@ For 32-bit we have the following convent
.if \pop_rdi
popq %rdi
.endif
- .endm
-
- .macro icebp
- .byte 0xf1
.endm
/*
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bp@xxxxxxx are
queue-4.14/x86-spectre-fix-an-error-message.patch
queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-remove-the-unused-icebp-macro.patch
queue-4.14/x86-kexec-make-kexec-mostly-work-in-5-level-paging-mode.patch