On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 12:28:35AM -0700, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: > Hi Greg, > > I have backported Spectre-v2 fixes and patches for the Speculative > Store Bypass vulnerability to 4.4.y (they apply cleanly on top of > 4.4.136). I would appreciate if you could kindly consider them for > review and inclusion in a future 4.4.y release. > > Thank you very much! > > Regards, > Srivatsa > VMware Photon OS > > > The following changes since commit dc45cafe612ec6960fe728f3260a0b751c73f4aa: > > Linux 4.4.136 (2018-06-06 16:46:24 +0200) > > are available in the git repository at: > > https://github.com/srivatsabhat/linux-stable spectre-v2-fixes-4.4.136 First off, I can't take git trees from random hosting sites, like github, sorry. And secondly, you always need to use a signed tag, I can't trust one otherwise. How much testing and verification did you all do with these patches? Who reviewed them? And finally, this week is the middle of the merge window so I am busy with that, and then I have 2 weeks of conferences in Asia, so it will be a while before I can get to these patches, even if they were with a signed tag :) thanks, greg k-h
