On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 09:14:30PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > It's based on the x86/pti branch unfortunately, which contains the removal > of the minimal asm retpoline hackery. I noticed too late. If the minimal > asm stuff should not be backported it's trivial to rebase that series on > Linus tree.
I see no problem with backporting those patches; the rationale for them also holds for the stable trees, people really should have a retpoline enabled compiler available by now. Also, that minimal thing provided about as much protection as thinking happy thoughts.
