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 4.9-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-bugs-drop-one-mitigation-from-dmesg.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 03:30:27 CET 2018

From: Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 13:11:39 +0100 Subject: x86/bugs: Drop one "mitigation" from dmesg

From: Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de

(cherry picked from 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: 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 @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ 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-4.9/x86-cpufeatures-add-intel-feature-bits-for-speculation-control.patch queue-4.9/x86-retpoline-simplify-vmexit_fill_rsb.patch queue-4.9/x86-cpufeatures-clean-up-spectre-v2-related-cpuid-flags.patch queue-4.9/x86-cpufeatures-add-cpuid_7_edx-cpuid-leaf.patch queue-4.9/x86-microcode-amd-do-not-load-when-running-on-a-hypervisor.patch queue-4.9/x86-nospec-fix-header-guards-names.patch queue-4.9/x86-alternative-print-unadorned-pointers.patch queue-4.9/x86-spectre-fix-spelling-mistake-vunerable-vulnerable.patch queue-4.9/x86-pti-mark-constant-arrays-as-__initconst.patch queue-4.9/x86-bugs-drop-one-mitigation-from-dmesg.patch queue-4.9/x86-pti-do-not-enable-pti-on-cpus-which-are-not-vulnerable-to-meltdown.patch