From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0912BC433EF for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2022 14:33:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S241640AbiC1Of1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Mar 2022 10:35:27 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:44886 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231985AbiC1OfZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Mar 2022 10:35:25 -0400 Received: from foss.arm.com (foss.arm.com [217.140.110.172]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92118473B5; Mon, 28 Mar 2022 07:33:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.121.207.14]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE70AD6E; Mon, 28 Mar 2022 07:33:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.1.196.218] (eglon.cambridge.arm.com [10.1.196.218]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E621D3F73B; Mon, 28 Mar 2022 07:33:40 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.9 00/14] 4.9.309-rc1 review To: Florian Fainelli , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux@roeck-us.net, shuah@kernel.org, patches@kernelci.org, lkft-triage@lists.linaro.org, pavel@denx.de, jonathanh@nvidia.com, sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com, slade@sladewatkins.com References: <20220325150415.694544076@linuxfoundation.org> <15268a27-5386-45d8-5c55-1095251331f7@gmail.com> From: James Morse Message-ID: <1e508bfb-d275-9a3f-16bd-915d464f006b@arm.com> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2022 15:33:36 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux aarch64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.12.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Florian, On 26/03/2022 00:00, Florian Fainelli wrote: > On 3/25/22 14:31, Florian Fainelli wrote: >> On 3/25/22 08:04, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.309 release. >>> There are 14 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response >>> to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please >>> let me know. >>> >>> Responses should be made by Sun, 27 Mar 2022 15:04:08 +0000. >>> Anything received after that time might be too late. >>> >>> The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: >>>     https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.9.309-rc1.gz >>> or in the git tree and branch at: >>>     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.9.y >>> and the diffstat can be found below. >>> >>> thanks, >>> >>> greg k-h >> >> On ARCH_BRCMSTB, using 32-bit and 64-bit ARM kernels: >> >> Tested-by: Florian Fainelli >> >> PS: is there any reason why the Spectre BHB patches from here are not part of >> linux-stable/linux-4.9.y? > > Meant to provide this link, from here: > > https://gitlab.arm.com/linux-arm/linux-jm/-/tree/bhb/v3/v4.9.302 These were from before the disclosure date. Since then the 'backport everything' approach was investigated more, but we decided not to go that way. These trees need the bugs we subsequently discovered fixing, retesting and reposting. I was on holiday last week. I plan to get to it this week. Thanks, James