Patch "x86/bugs: Drop one "mitigation" from dmesg" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

x86/bugs: Drop one "mitigation" from dmesg

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
x86bugs_Drop_one_mitigation_from_dmesg.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

Subject: x86/bugs: Drop one "mitigation" from dmesg
From: Borislav Petkov [email protected]
Date: Fri Jan 26 13:11:39 2018 +0100

From: Borislav Petkov [email protected]

commit 55fa19d3e51f33d9cd4056d25836d93abf9438db

Make

[    0.031118] Spectre V2 mitigation: Mitigation: Full generic retpoline

into

[    0.031118] Spectre V2: Mitigation: Full generic retpoline

to reduce the mitigation mitigations strings.

---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ static const char *spectre_v2_strings[]
 };
 
 #undef pr_fmt
-#define pr_fmt(fmt)     "Spectre V2 mitigation: " fmt
+#define pr_fmt(fmt)     "Spectre V2 : " fmt
 
 static enum spectre_v2_mitigation spectre_v2_enabled = SPECTRE_V2_NONE;
 static bool spectre_v2_bad_module;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.14/x86pti_Do_not_enable_PTI_on_CPUs_which_are_not_vulnerable_to_Meltdown.patch queue-4.14/x86cpufeatures_Add_Intel_feature_bits_for_Speculation_Control.patch queue-4.14/x86alternative_Print_unadorned_pointers.patch queue-4.14/x86cpufeatures_Add_CPUID_7_EDX_CPUID_leaf.patch queue-4.14/x86bugs_Drop_one_mitigation_from_dmesg.patch queue-4.14/x86speculation_Simplify_indirect_branch_prediction_barrier().patch queue-4.14/x86nospec_Fix_header_guards_names.patch queue-4.14/x86retpoline_Simplify_vmexit_fill_RSB().patch queue-4.14/x86cpufeatures_Clean_up_Spectre_v2_related_CPUID_flags.patch