This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/spectre: Check CONFIG_RETPOLINE in command line parser
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-spectre-check-config_retpoline-in-command-line-parser.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 11:41:58 +0100 Subject: x86/spectre: Check CONFIG_RETPOLINE in command line parser To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Dou Liyang douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com, Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de, ak@linux.intel.com, peterz@infradead.org, Tomohiro misono.tomohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, dave.hansen@intel.com, bp@alien8.de, arjan@linux.intel.com, dwmw@amazon.co.uk, Jack Wang jinpu.wang@profitbricks.com Message-ID: 1519382538-15143-10-git-send-email-jinpu.wangl@profitbricks.com
From: Dou Liyang douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com
(cherry picked from commit 9471eee9186a46893726e22ebb54cade3f9bc043)
The spectre_v2 option 'auto' does not check whether CONFIG_RETPOLINE is enabled. As a consequence it fails to emit the appropriate warning and sets feature flags which have no effect at all.
Add the missing IS_ENABLED() check.
Fixes: da285121560e ("x86/spectre: Add boot time option to select Spectre v2 mitigation") Signed-off-by: Dou Liyang douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: ak@linux.intel.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: Tomohiro misono.tomohiro@jp.fujitsu.com Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com Cc: bp@alien8.de Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com Cc: dwmw@amazon.co.uk Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/f5892721-7528-3647-08fb-f8d10e65ad87@cn.fujitsu.co... Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk [jwang: cherry-pick 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 | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c @@ -213,10 +213,10 @@ static void __init spectre_v2_select_mit return;
case SPECTRE_V2_CMD_FORCE: - /* FALLTRHU */ case SPECTRE_V2_CMD_AUTO: - goto retpoline_auto; - + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RETPOLINE)) + goto retpoline_auto; + break; case SPECTRE_V2_CMD_RETPOLINE_AMD: if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RETPOLINE)) goto retpoline_amd;
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