This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/cpu/bugs: Make retpoline module warning conditional
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: x86-cpu-bugs-make-retpoline-module-warning-conditional.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 stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Fri Feb 23 17:23:58 CET 2018
From: Jack Wang jinpu.wang@profitbricks.com Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 11:41:57 +0100 Subject: x86/cpu/bugs: Make retpoline module warning conditional To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de, Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com, David Woodhouse dwmw2@infradead.org, David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk, Jack Wang jinpu.wang@profitbricks.com Message-ID: 1519382538-15143-9-git-send-email-jinpu.wangl@profitbricks.com
From: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de
(cherry picked from commit e383095c7fe8d218e00ec0f83e4b95ed4e627b02)
If sysfs is disabled and RETPOLINE not defined:
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c:97:13: warning: ‘spectre_v2_bad_module’ defined but not used [-Wunused-variable] static bool spectre_v2_bad_module;
Hide it.
Fixes: caf7501a1b4e ("module/retpoline: Warn about missing retpoline in module") Reported-by: Borislav Petkov bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com Cc: David Woodhouse dwmw2@infradead.org Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk [jwang: port to 4.4] Signed-off-by: Jack Wang jinpu.wang@profitbricks.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c @@ -94,9 +94,10 @@ static const char *spectre_v2_strings[]
static enum spectre_v2_mitigation spectre_v2_enabled = SPECTRE_V2_NONE;
-static bool spectre_v2_bad_module;
#ifdef RETPOLINE +static bool spectre_v2_bad_module; + bool retpoline_module_ok(bool has_retpoline) { if (spectre_v2_enabled == SPECTRE_V2_NONE || has_retpoline) @@ -106,6 +107,13 @@ bool retpoline_module_ok(bool has_retpol spectre_v2_bad_module = true; return false; } + +static inline const char *spectre_v2_module_string(void) +{ + return spectre_v2_bad_module ? " - vulnerable module loaded" : ""; +} +#else +static inline const char *spectre_v2_module_string(void) { return ""; } #endif
static void __init spec2_print_if_insecure(const char *reason) @@ -293,6 +301,6 @@ ssize_t cpu_show_spectre_v2(struct devic return sprintf(buf, "Not affected\n");
return sprintf(buf, "%s%s\n", spectre_v2_strings[spectre_v2_enabled], - spectre_v2_bad_module ? " - vulnerable module loaded" : ""); + spectre_v2_module_string()); } #endif
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jinpu.wang@profitbricks.com are
queue-4.4/x86-paravirt-remove-noreplace-paravirt-cmdline-option.patch queue-4.4/documentation-document-array_index_nospec.patch queue-4.4/kvm-x86-make-indirect-calls-in-emulator-speculation-safe.patch queue-4.4/x86-nospec-fix-header-guards-names.patch queue-4.4/x86-retpoline-avoid-retpolines-for-built-in-__init-functions.patch queue-4.4/vfs-fdtable-prevent-bounds-check-bypass-via-speculative-execution.patch queue-4.4/kvm-nvmx-invvpid-handling-improvements.patch queue-4.4/x86-cpu-bugs-make-retpoline-module-warning-conditional.patch queue-4.4/x86-spectre-check-config_retpoline-in-command-line-parser.patch queue-4.4/x86-implement-array_index_mask_nospec.patch queue-4.4/array_index_nospec-sanitize-speculative-array-de-references.patch queue-4.4/kvm-vmx-make-indirect-call-speculation-safe.patch queue-4.4/x86-spectre-fix-spelling-mistake-vunerable-vulnerable.patch queue-4.4/kvm-nvmx-fix-kernel-panics-induced-by-illegal-invept-invvpid-types.patch queue-4.4/module-retpoline-warn-about-missing-retpoline-in-module.patch queue-4.4/x86-kvm-update-spectre-v1-mitigation.patch queue-4.4/x86-get_user-use-pointer-masking-to-limit-speculation.patch queue-4.4/x86-syscall-sanitize-syscall-table-de-references-under-speculation.patch queue-4.4/kvm-nvmx-vmx_complete_nested_posted_interrupt-can-t-fail.patch queue-4.4/x86-spectre-simplify-spectre_v2-command-line-parsing.patch queue-4.4/x86-speculation-fix-typo-ibrs_att-which-should-be-ibrs_all.patch queue-4.4/x86-spectre-report-get_user-mitigation-for-spectre_v1.patch queue-4.4/x86-introduce-barrier_nospec.patch queue-4.4/kvm-async_pf-fix-df-due-to-inject-page-not-present-and-page-ready-exceptions-simultaneously.patch queue-4.4/kvm-vmx-clean-up-declaration-of-vpid-ept-invalidation-types.patch queue-4.4/x86-bugs-drop-one-mitigation-from-dmesg.patch queue-4.4/x86-retpoline-remove-the-esp-rsp-thunk.patch queue-4.4/nl80211-sanitize-array-index-in-parse_txq_params.patch queue-4.4/kvm-nvmx-kmap-can-t-fail.patch