From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [stable:PATCH v4.9.309 00/43] arm64: Mitigate spectre style branch history side channels
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2022 20:23:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yk3av5Vv5kvfv1Nl@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220406164217.1888053-1-james.morse@arm.com>
On Wed, Apr 06, 2022 at 05:41:34PM +0100, James Morse wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Compared to the v4.14 backport, this backport for v4.9 includes extra
> infrastructure for the arch timer driver, which is needed for the A76 timer
> workaround, which is needed to cleanly pick up the A76 MIDR definition.
> I didn't backport the Hisilicon 161010101 workaround as I'm unable to test it.
>
> I also backported the capabilities midr-range support, which the bhb
> mitigation makes use of. Ard had already backported this to v4.14.
> I ended up backporting Ard's version from v4.14 as it conflicted less,
> and he had added A35 to the spectre-safe list.
>
> .. and then the Spectre-BHB bits, where as before the KVM stuff is
> different to mainline as the infrastructure for doing this stuff is very
> different.
Looks great, many thanks for these!
greg k-h
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