Re: x86: Meltdown/Spectre_v2 status

From: Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Mon Jan 15 2018 - 09:28:44 EST


On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 11:55:17AM +0000, 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'd very much appreciate your eyes on my objtool-related
> backports â both your retpoline-specific patches, as well as the
> .discard.* bits they depended on. Thanks.
>
> Bringing ASM_CALL_CONSTRAINT in as-is seemed like the same thing to do
> too.

The objtool-related backports look good.

--
Josh