[artful][PATCH 0/3] Improve cpu alternative handling for gmb and nobp

[Seth Forshee]

On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 02:12:52PM -0200, Marcelo Henrique Cerri wrote:
> CVE-2017-5753
> CVE-2017-5715
> 
> This patches add improvements for nobp kernel options and turns it on by default.
> 
> Marcelo Henrique Cerri (2):
>   UBUNTU: SAUCE: s390: print messages for gmb and nobp
>   UBUNTU: [Config] KERNEL_NOBP=y
> 
> Martin Schwidefsky (1):
>   UBUNTU: SAUCE: s390: improve cpu alternative handling for gmb and nobp

What about 4.14 and later for bionic? Are there upstream patches which
make these unnecessaary, or should we also apply them there?