30 Nov
2018
30 Nov
'18
3:15 p.m.
On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 02:28:18PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
Hi,
As I've already fed back to Sascha about this, this patch on its own does not fix anything, and is not a stable kernel candidate without a patch that makes use of it (iow, the spectre fixes.) It is a preparatory patch for mainline commit 383fb3ee8024.
Every commit in:
$ git rev-list v4.16..383fb3ee8024
are the ARM spectre fixes, which are being back-ported by David Long.
Please do not cherry-pick commits from within this series for _any_ stable kernel, but please wait for David to send you the back-ported patches.
Ugh, ok, that's a bunch here.
Sasha, let me go dig all of these out now.
Russell, thanks for letting me know.
greg k-h