[PATCH stable v4.4 00/52] powerpc spectre backports for 4.4

[Diana Madalina Craciun]

On 4/21/2019 7:34 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 12:19:45AM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
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>> Hi Greg/Sasha,
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>> Please queue up these powerpc patches for 4.4 if you have no objections.
> why?  Do you, or someone else, really care about spectre issues in 4.4?
> Who is using ppc for 4.4 becides a specific enterprise distro (and they
> don't seem to be pulling in my stable updates anyway...)?

We (NXP) received questions from customers regarding Spectre mitigations
on kernel 4.4. Not sure if they really need them as some systems are
enclosed embedded ones, but they asked for them.

Thanks,
Diana

> I'll be glad to take these, just want to make sure that someone actually
> will use them :)
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
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