Patch "x86/spectre: Fix an error message" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree
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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/spectre: Fix an error message
to the 4.4-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:
x86-spectre-fix-an-error-message.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.
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9de29eac8d2189424d81c0d840cd0469aa3d41c8Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 10:14:17 +0300
Subject: x86/spectre: Fix an error message
From: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
commit 9de29eac8d2189424d81c0d840cd0469aa3d41c8 upstream.
If i == ARRAY_SIZE(mitigation_options) then we accidentally print garbage from one space beyond the end of the mitigation_options[] array.
--- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c +1 -2
@@ -175,8 +175,7 @@ static enum spectre_v2_mitigation_cmd __ }if (i >=ARRAY_SIZE (mitigation_options)) { -pr_err ("unknown option (%s). Switching to AUTO select\n" , - mitigation_options[i].option); +pr_err ("unknown option (%s). Switching to AUTO select\n" , arg);return SPECTRE_V2_CMD_AUTO ; } }
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-4.4/x86-spectre-fix-an-error-message.patch