Re: Security fixes for 4.4

And here they really are.

Ben.

On Thu, 2018-12-13 at 18:51 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:

I've backported a number of fixes for security issues affecting 4.4- stable.  All of these are already fixed in the newer stable branches.

For the BPF fix, I verified that the self-tests (taken from 4.14) didn't regress and temporarily added logging to check that the mitigation is applied when needed.

For the KVM changes, I verified that IBPB/IBRS are now exposed to and used by a guest on Intel hardware.

I also verified that the current self-tests for timers, usercopy and vm didn't regress.

Ben.