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 Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 01/61] x86/traps: Use pt_regs directly in fixup_bad_iret() Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 02/61] x86/entry: Switch the stack after error_entry() returns Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 03/61] x86/entry: Move PUSH_AND_CLEAR_REGS out of error_entry() Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 04/61] x86/entry: Dont call error_entry() for XENPV Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 05/61] x86/entry: Remove skip_r11rcx Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 06/61] x86/kvm/vmx: Make noinstr clean Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 07/61] x86/cpufeatures: Move RETPOLINE flags to word 11 Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 08/61] x86/retpoline: Cleanup some #ifdefery Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 09/61] x86/retpoline: Swizzle retpoline thunk Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 10/61] x86/retpoline: Use -mfunction-return Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 11/61] x86: Undo return-thunk damage Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 12/61] x86,objtool: Create .return_sites Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 13/61] objtool: skip non-text sections when adding return-thunk sites Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 14/61] x86,static_call: Use alternative RET encoding Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 15/61] x86/ftrace: " Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 16/61] x86/bpf: " Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 17/61] x86/kvm: Fix SETcc emulation for return thunks Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 18/61] x86/vsyscall_emu/64: Dont use RET in vsyscall emulation Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 19/61] x86/sev: Avoid using __x86_return_thunk Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 20/61] x86: Use return-thunk in asm code Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 21/61] x86/entry: Avoid very early RET Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 22/61] objtool: Treat .text.__x86.* as noinstr Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 23/61] x86: Add magic AMD return-thunk Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 24/61] x86/bugs: Report AMD retbleed vulnerability Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 25/61] x86/bugs: Add AMD retbleed= boot parameter Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 26/61] x86/bugs: Enable STIBP for JMP2RET Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 27/61] x86/bugs: Keep a per-CPU IA32_SPEC_CTRL value Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 28/61] x86/entry: Add kernel IBRS implementation Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 29/61] x86/bugs: Optimize SPEC_CTRL MSR writes Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 30/61] x86/speculation: Add spectre_v2=ibrs option to support Kernel IBRS Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 31/61] x86/bugs: Split spectre_v2_select_mitigation() and spectre_v2_user_select_mitigation() Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 32/61] x86/bugs: Report Intel retbleed vulnerability Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 33/61] intel_idle: Disable IBRS during long idle Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 34/61] objtool: Update Retpoline validation Greg Kroah-Hartman
   ` Jiri Slaby
     ` Jiri Slaby
       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
         ` Borislav Petkov
           ` [PATCH] x86/asm/32: fix ANNOTATE_UNRET_SAFE use on 32bit Jiri Slaby
     ` [tip: x86/urgent] x86/asm/32: Fix ANNOTATE_UNRET_SAFE use on 32-bit tip-bot2 for Jiri Slaby
     ` tip-bot2 for Jiri Slaby
 ` [PATCH 5.18 35/61] x86/xen: Rename SYS* entry points Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 36/61] x86/xen: Add UNTRAIN_RET Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 37/61] x86/bugs: Add retbleed=ibpb Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 38/61] x86/bugs: Do IBPB fallback check only once Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 39/61] objtool: Add entry UNRET validation Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 40/61] x86/cpu/amd: Add Spectral Chicken Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 41/61] x86/speculation: Fix RSB filling with CONFIG_RETPOLINE=n Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 42/61] x86/speculation: Fix firmware entry SPEC_CTRL handling Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 43/61] x86/speculation: Fix SPEC_CTRL write on SMT state change Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 44/61] x86/speculation: Use cached host SPEC_CTRL value for guest entry/exit Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 45/61] x86/speculation: Remove x86_spec_ctrl_mask Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 46/61] objtool: Re-add UNWIND_HINT_{SAVE_RESTORE} Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 47/61] KVM: VMX: Flatten __vmx_vcpu_run() Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 48/61] KVM: VMX: Convert launched argument to flags Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 49/61] KVM: VMX: Prevent guest RSB poisoning attacks with eIBRS Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 50/61] KVM: VMX: Fix IBRS handling after vmexit Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 51/61] x86/speculation: Fill RSB on vmexit for IBRS Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 52/61] KVM: VMX: Prevent RSB underflow before vmenter Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 53/61] x86/common: Stamp out the stepping madness Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 54/61] x86/cpu/amd: Enumerate BTC_NO Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 55/61] x86/retbleed: Add fine grained Kconfig knobs Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 56/61] x86/bugs: Add Cannon lake to RETBleed affected CPU list Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 57/61] x86/entry: Move PUSH_AND_CLEAR_REGS() back into error_entry Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 58/61] x86/bugs: Do not enable IBPB-on-entry when IBPB is not supported Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 59/61] x86/kexec: Disable RET on kexec Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 60/61] x86/speculation: Disable RRSBA behavior Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 61/61] x86/static_call: Serialize __static_call_fixup() properly Greg Kroah-Hartman
 ` [PATCH 5.18 00/61] 5.18.12-rc1 review Florian Fainelli
 ` Zan Aziz
 ` Shuah Khan
 ` Bagas Sanjaya
 ` Sudip Mukherjee (Codethink)
 ` Ron Economos
 ` Naresh Kamboju
   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
     ` Naresh Kamboju
       ` Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
     ` Peter Zijlstra
 ` Guenter Roeck
 ` Rudi Heitbaum
 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
 Ronald Warsow

On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 08:38:57PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.18.12 release.
> There are 61 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> let me know.
> 
> Responses should be made by Thu, 14 Jul 2022 18:32:19 +0000.
> Anything received after that time might be too late.
> 
> The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> 	https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/stable-revie...
> or in the git tree and branch at:
> 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.18.y
> and the diffstat can be found below.

With all the problems that this, and the 5.15.y and 5.10.y trees are
having right now, I'm going to postpone this whole set of -rc releases
and get to them next week, when all of the needed fixup patches have hit
Linus's tree.

Sorry for the delay all, and thank you to everyone for all of the
testing.  The problems are purely due to the fact that we were forced to
do this type of work "in private" with very limited ability for testing
by the normal larger kernel community like we rely on.  We don't have
fancy or huge private testing labs where we can do all of this work as
we are an open source project, and we rely on open testing in public.

So thanks all for your understanding with the delay.  If you _really_
need protection from RETBLEED, you can grab these patches now, as maybe
the corner cases we have hit so far don't affect you.  Otherwise they
should be ready next week, and I'll do a whole new round of -rc1 with
them.

greg k-h