This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

x86/spectre: Fix spelling mistake: "vunerable"-> "vulnerable"

to the 4.9-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: x86-spectre-fix-spelling-mistake-vunerable-vulnerable.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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.

From foo@baz Thu Feb 8 03:32:24 CET 2018

From: Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 19:32:18 +0000 Subject: x86/spectre: Fix spelling mistake: "vunerable"-> "vulnerable"

From: Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com

(cherry picked from commit e698dcdfcda41efd0984de539767b4cddd235f1e)

Trivial fix to spelling mistake in pr_err error message text.

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Cc: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Cc: Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de Cc: David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180130193218.9271-1-colin.king@canonical.com Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk 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 @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ bool retpoline_module_ok(bool has_retpol if (spectre_v2_enabled == SPECTRE_V2_NONE || has_retpoline) return true;

- pr_err("System may be vunerable to spectre v2\n"); + pr_err("System may be vulnerable to spectre v2\n"); spectre_v2_bad_module = true; return false; }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from colin.king@canonical.com are

queue-4.9/x86-spectre-fix-spelling-mistake-vunerable-vulnerable.patch