linux-kernel - Re: [STABLE 4.9.y PATCH 0/9] Backport of KVM Speculation Control support

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Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.20.1802151148570.14387@er-systems.de>
Date:   Thu, 15 Feb 2018 11:49:54 +0100 (CET)
From:   Thomas Voegtle <tv@...96.de>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
cc:     David Woodhouse <dwmw@...zon.co.uk>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@...zon.de>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [STABLE 4.9.y PATCH 0/9] Backport of KVM Speculation Control
 support

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