This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
KVM: VMX: Make indirect call speculation safe
to the 4.9-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: kvm-vmx-make-indirect-call-speculation-safe.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 Wed Feb 7 19:38:23 CST 2018
From: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 10:58:14 +0100 Subject: KVM: VMX: Make indirect call speculation safe
From: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org
(cherry picked from commit c940a3fb1e2e9b7d03228ab28f375fb5a47ff699)
Replace indirect call with CALL_NOSPEC.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) peterz@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Reviewed-by: David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk Cc: Andrea Arcangeli aarcange@redhat.com Cc: Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com Cc: Ashok Raj ashok.raj@intel.com Cc: Greg KH gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: Jun Nakajima jun.nakajima@intel.com Cc: David Woodhouse dwmw2@infradead.org Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: rga@amazon.de Cc: Dave Hansen dave.hansen@intel.com Cc: Asit Mallick asit.k.mallick@intel.com Cc: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Cc: Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com Cc: Jason Baron jbaron@akamai.com Cc: Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com Cc: Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com Cc: Arjan Van De Ven arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com Cc: Tim Chen tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180125095843.645776917@infradead.org Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c @@ -8676,14 +8676,14 @@ static void vmx_handle_external_intr(str #endif "pushf\n\t" __ASM_SIZE(push) " $%c[cs]\n\t" - "call *%[entry]\n\t" + CALL_NOSPEC : #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 [sp]"=&r"(tmp), #endif "+r"(__sp) : - [entry]"r"(entry), + THUNK_TARGET(entry), [ss]"i"(__KERNEL_DS), [cs]"i"(__KERNEL_CS) );
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from peterz@infradead.org are
queue-4.9/kvm-x86-add-ibpb-support.patch queue-4.9/x86-cpufeatures-add-intel-feature-bits-for-speculation-control.patch queue-4.9/x86-cpufeatures-add-cpuid_7_edx-cpuid-leaf.patch queue-4.9/kvm-x86-make-indirect-calls-in-emulator-speculation-safe.patch queue-4.9/x86-cpufeature-blacklist-spec_ctrl-pred_cmd-on-early-spectre-v2-microcodes.patch queue-4.9/x86-asm-fix-inline-asm-call-constraints-for-gcc-4.4.patch queue-4.9/kvm-vmx-make-indirect-call-speculation-safe.patch queue-4.9/x86-cpufeatures-add-amd-feature-bits-for-speculation-control.patch queue-4.9/x86-msr-add-definitions-for-new-speculation-control-msrs.patch queue-4.9/x86-pti-make-unpoison-of-pgd-for-trusted-boot-work-for-real.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-fix-intel_bts-perf-crashes.patch queue-4.9/x86-retpoline-remove-the-esp-rsp-thunk.patch queue-4.9/x86-pti-do-not-enable-pti-on-cpus-which-are-not-vulnerable-to-meltdown.patch