Re: [PATCH 4.14 00/17] V4.14 backport of more 32-bit arm spectre patches

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On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 05:30:51PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 11:07:08AM -0500, David Long wrote:
> > On 1/15/19 10:45 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 12:51:33PM -0500, David Long wrote:
> > > > From: "David A. Long" <dave.long@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > 
> > > > V4.14 backport of spectre patches from Russell M. King's spectre branch.
> > > 
> > > If I take these, than 4.19 is vulnerable.  So someone upgrading from
> > > 4.14 to 4.19 will regress :(
> > > 
> > > Can you please send me a 4.19 series so I can apply that before this
> > > one?
> > > 
> > > thanks,
> > > 
> > > greg k-h
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > OK, didn't think about that being a problem. Working on it. Pretty sure
> > there's exactly one patch needed for that.
> 
> one?  All of these except one showed up in 4.20 and were not backported
> to 4.19 from what I can tell.  The last one is in 5.0-rc1 and not even
> backported to 4.20 either, which means someone messed up and didn't tag
> it properly with a cc: stable patch :(

Or they didn't think it was important enough to warrant backporting.

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