Re: x86: Meltdown/Spectre_v2 status

2018-01-15 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 04:48:14PM -0600, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > Thomas, amazing job distilling some sanity out of the pandemonium. > > For future patch submissions, I would ask everyone to at least add > x...@kernel.org to To: or Cc: (along with lkml). It's not only good > etiquette to help the

Re: x86: Meltdown/Spectre_v2 status

2018-01-15 Thread Josh Poimboeuf
On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 11:55:17AM +, Woodhouse, David wrote: > FWIW we've done a backport of the sysfs/vulnerability and retpoline > parts to 4.9, including cherry-picking a few earlier needed commits: > http://git.infradead.org/retpoline-stable.git/shortlog/refs/heads/linux-4.9.y > > Josh, I

Re: x86: Meltdown/Spectre_v2 status

2018-01-12 Thread Josh Poimboeuf
On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 10:44:48PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Folks! > > After 10 days of frenzy following the disclosure of the mess, I'm at a > point where I think that the current set which we have in Linus tree and > the pending patches in tip:x86/pti plus one not yet applied patch (RSB o

x86: Meltdown/Spectre_v2 status

2018-01-12 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Folks! After 10 days of frenzy following the disclosure of the mess, I'm at a point where I think that the current set which we have in Linus tree and the pending patches in tip:x86/pti plus one not yet applied patch (RSB on context switch) have reached a state where the main targets are covered e