Re: [PATCH v2 00/23] SRSO fixes/cleanups

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Aug 26 2023 - 13:02:12 EST



* Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 12:38:53PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Thank you, this all looks very nice. I've applied your fixes to
> > tip:x86/bugs, with the exception of the two KVM enablement patches.
> >
> > I've also cherry-picked the apply_returns() fix separately to x86/urgent,
> > AFAICS that's the only super-urgent fix we want to push to the final v6.5
> > release before the weekend, right? The other fixes look like
> > reporting bugs, Kconfig oddities and inefficiencies at worst. Backporters
> > may still pick the rest from x86/bugs too - but we are too close to the
> > release right now.
>
> As far as I can tell, the apply_returns() fix isn't necessarily urgent,
> since after commit 095b8303f383 it went from being an actual bug to just
> dead code: the optimization will never take effect now that none of the
> rethunk cases use __x86_return_thunk.
>
> On the other hand, if I'm too late sending this, it should be harmless to
> merge it into the final v6.5 release.

Not too late at all - I've removed it from x86/urgent.

Thanks,

Ingo