On 1/15/19 12:19 PM, Greg KH wrote:
On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 05:06:59PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote:
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 :(
My bad, I see now I was looking at v4.20 when I made that comment, not
v4.19.
Or they didn't think it was important enough to warrant backporting.
Fair enough, then I have to ask why it's included in this series at
all...
I've been backporting all "spectre" branch patches as kept in the
linux-arm repo, with the assumption they're all important. If the last
patch is not deemed worthy of going into stable now would be a good time
to declare it so as I have patch sets for v4.19 and v4.9 stable versions
about ready to publish.
thanks,
greg k-h
Thanks,
-dl
