From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Cyrus-Session-Id: sloti22d1t05-1146594-1518691801-2-17827241004282620259 X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 3.0 X-Spam-known-sender: no X-Spam-score: 0.0 X-Spam-hits: BAYES_00 -1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS 0.001, ME_NOAUTH 0.01, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI -5, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD -0.01, LANGUAGES en, BAYES_USED global, SA_VERSION 3.4.0 X-Spam-source: IP='209.132.180.67', Host='vger.kernel.org', Country='US', FromHeader='de', MailFrom='org' X-Spam-charsets: cc='ISO-8859-2', plain='US-ASCII' X-Resolved-to: greg@kroah.com X-Delivered-to: greg@kroah.com X-Mail-from: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; cv=none; d=messagingengine.com; s=arctest; t=1518691800; b=WmjwLhYBeUjVXQRLQQY8/8uZTHhVtfBR/WetRskrG4LyVyv TDs7tZ7T1eZspd/g8ZM0rPhjXdf8dDwnMiJjA66fXpM2WF53D/NmIFUCuXmqtUvK ctbT5E+A7vhA3p+vxq+IIPNO7xyth3FMMCWuByoK+DCy+BnTB3aOQuT8u3NwqD3p AG2iU2Gg0/nUpqIKRhTbpnijfjnkjRjPoUlVtfQEPxgI/xz7xByZwsyGg0Xyw1ZD 2Ia3ZpIirasDAr+mNS4sUJxdTINCVNpCg/pItoHygrt8jTa5QGt5DtySHMkrimsn MGBPNSR80RvOC0XoLv96I9JmJ+4zJNYVyTwCPdQ== ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to :message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:sender:list-id; s=arctest; t=1518691800; bh=NEsLP1TaF11qu93Cc04QcHPpx0XY55wvRBI dttotJ3I=; b=OlfiySlrjSTncNptE0g8CCf+MhxFABjjWqi1BjCDf5jRbgu1Jgf Jw2ammjCSXOefpz21Bw8ozYiYdOcRNOeE6DAwNbQGgVX1McVAmIV2w51ONdlFfIT l0Mq2apxVao42A+EpRfSdwFbtiY3XlbRa6MNyXXPwgExQ/5p9OBU5BpeH0RGSSUU BZHIz2SDXM+U8TaI3B8Ozztg8eExKeklSaKPhUAfBrrInN91xnU0T951Kz3il+H0 GL/mKJrNfhhMa3+PKDARLreLoHJAIFnocfGC1yUbPeHW3scO28v+u4iE4SIfrrNG tpNn3RhyQJpk4SGfNY6j8ixwr+AUUG7xUng== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; mx2.messagingengine.com; arc=none (no signatures found); dkim=none (no signatures found); dmarc=none (p=none,has-list-id=yes,d=none) header.from=lio96.de; iprev=pass policy.iprev=209.132.180.67 (vger.kernel.org); spf=none smtp.mailfrom=stable-owner@vger.kernel.org smtp.helo=vger.kernel.org; x-aligned-from=fail; x-ptr=pass x-ptr-helo=vger.kernel.org x-ptr-lookup=vger.kernel.org; x-return-mx=pass smtp.domain=vger.kernel.org smtp.result=pass smtp_org.domain=kernel.org smtp_org.result=pass smtp_is_org_domain=no header.domain=lio96.de header.result=pass header_is_org_domain=yes Authentication-Results: mx2.messagingengine.com; arc=none (no signatures found); dkim=none (no signatures found); dmarc=none (p=none,has-list-id=yes,d=none) header.from=lio96.de; iprev=pass policy.iprev=209.132.180.67 (vger.kernel.org); spf=none smtp.mailfrom=stable-owner@vger.kernel.org smtp.helo=vger.kernel.org; x-aligned-from=fail; x-ptr=pass x-ptr-helo=vger.kernel.org x-ptr-lookup=vger.kernel.org; x-return-mx=pass smtp.domain=vger.kernel.org smtp.result=pass smtp_org.domain=kernel.org smtp_org.result=pass smtp_is_org_domain=no header.domain=lio96.de header.result=pass header_is_org_domain=yes Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755302AbeBOKt7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2018 05:49:59 -0500 Received: from er-systems.de ([148.251.68.21]:36770 "EHLO er-systems.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755283AbeBOKt6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2018 05:49:58 -0500 X-Remote-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on er-systems.de X-Remote-Spam-Level: X-Remote-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 11:49:54 +0100 (CET) From: Thomas Voegtle X-X-Sender: thomas@er-systems.de To: Greg KH cc: David Woodhouse , Paolo Bonzini , Jim Mattson , =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Radim_Kr=E8m=E1=F8?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, KarimAllah Ahmed , stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [STABLE 4.9.y PATCH 0/9] Backport of KVM Speculation Control support In-Reply-To: <20180215102341.GA19398@kroah.com> Message-ID: References: <1517938181-15317-1-git-send-email-dwmw@amazon.co.uk> <20180215102341.GA19398@kroah.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (LSU 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Checker-Version: clamassassin 1.2.4 with clamdscan / ClamAV 0.99.3/24316/Thu Feb 15 02:21:10 2018 signatures . Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org X-getmail-retrieved-from-mailbox: INBOX X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 15 Feb 2018, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 11:15:41AM +0100, Thomas Voegtle wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> On Tue, 6 Feb 2018, David Woodhouse wrote: >> >>> I've put together a linux-4.9.y branch at >>> http://git.infradead.org/retpoline-stable.git/shortlog/refs/heads/linux-4.9.y >> >> >> Are there any plans for a backport to v4.4? >> >> I would volunteer for testing ;) > > Care to volunteer to do the backport? :) > > Why do you need/want this type of thing for 4.4.y? What is keeping you > from moving to 4.9.y instead? Or even better yet, 4.14.y or 4.15, where > everything is fixed "correctly"? Puhh, I would love to do the backport but I had a quick look at the patch series and that is beyond my scope, I'm afraid. I'm a tester ;) If there are no plans I know I have to move to a newer kernel, sadly. Thomas