This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/bugs: Drop one "mitigation" from dmesg
to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: x86bugs_Drop_one_mitigation_from_dmesg.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
Subject: x86/bugs: Drop one "mitigation" from dmesg From: Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de Date: Fri Jan 26 13:11:39 2018 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de
commit 55fa19d3e51f33d9cd4056d25836d93abf9438db
Make
[ 0.031118] Spectre V2 mitigation: Mitigation: Full generic retpoline
into
[ 0.031118] Spectre V2: Mitigation: Full generic retpoline
to reduce the mitigation mitigations strings.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: riel@redhat.com Cc: ak@linux.intel.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: David Woodhouse dwmw2@infradead.org Cc: jikos@kernel.org Cc: luto@amacapital.net Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: keescook@google.com Cc: Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com Cc: tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com Cc: pjt@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180126121139.31959-5-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ static const char *spectre_v2_strings[] };
#undef pr_fmt -#define pr_fmt(fmt) "Spectre V2 mitigation: " fmt +#define pr_fmt(fmt) "Spectre V2 : " fmt
static enum spectre_v2_mitigation spectre_v2_enabled = SPECTRE_V2_NONE; static bool spectre_v2_bad_module;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bp@suse.de are
queue-4.15/x86pti_Do_not_enable_PTI_on_CPUs_which_are_not_vulnerable_to_Meltdown.patch queue-4.15/x86cpufeatures_Add_Intel_feature_bits_for_Speculation_Control.patch queue-4.15/x86alternative_Print_unadorned_pointers.patch queue-4.15/x86cpufeatures_Add_CPUID_7_EDX_CPUID_leaf.patch queue-4.15/x86bugs_Drop_one_mitigation_from_dmesg.patch queue-4.15/x86speculation_Simplify_indirect_branch_prediction_barrier().patch queue-4.15/x86nospec_Fix_header_guards_names.patch queue-4.15/x86retpoline_Simplify_vmexit_fill_RSB().patch queue-4.15/x86cpufeatures_Clean_up_Spectre_v2_related_CPUID_flags.patch