This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled x86/spectre: Fix an error message to the 4.4-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-spectre-fix-an-error-message.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 9de29eac8d2189424d81c0d840cd0469aa3d41c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 10:14:17 +0300 Subject: x86/spectre: Fix an error message From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 9de29eac8d2189424d81c0d840cd0469aa3d41c8 upstream. If i == ARRAY_SIZE(mitigation_options) then we accidentally print garbage from one space beyond the end of the mitigation_options[] array. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: kernel-janitors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 9005c6834c0f ("x86/spectre: Simplify spectre_v2 command line parsing") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180214071416.GA26677@mwanda Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c @@ -175,8 +175,7 @@ static enum spectre_v2_mitigation_cmd __ } if (i >= ARRAY_SIZE(mitigation_options)) { - pr_err("unknown option (%s). Switching to AUTO select\n", - mitigation_options[i].option); + pr_err("unknown option (%s). Switching to AUTO select\n", arg); return SPECTRE_V2_CMD_AUTO; } } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/x86-spectre-fix-an-error-message.patch