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 4.15-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-4.15 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.
Subject: KVM: VMX: Make indirect call speculation safe From: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Date: Thu Jan 25 10:58:14 2018 +0100
From: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org
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: 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 @@ -9129,14 +9129,14 @@ 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 ASM_CALL_CONSTRAINT : - [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-4.15/x86pti_Do_not_enable_PTI_on_CPUs_which_are_not_vulnerable_to_Meltdown.patch queue-4.15/x86cpufeature_Blacklist_SPEC_CTRLPRED_CMD_on_early_Spectre_v2_microcodes.patch queue-4.15/x86cpufeatures_Add_Intel_feature_bits_for_Speculation_Control.patch queue-4.15/KVM_VMX_Make_indirect_call_speculation_safe.patch queue-4.15/x86msr_Add_definitions_for_new_speculation_control_MSRs.patch queue-4.15/x86alternative_Print_unadorned_pointers.patch queue-4.15/x86cpufeatures_Add_CPUID_7_EDX_CPUID_leaf.patch queue-4.15/x86bugs_Drop_one_mitigation_from_dmesg.patch queue-4.15/x86cpufeatures_Add_AMD_feature_bits_for_Speculation_Control.patch queue-4.15/x86speculation_Add_basic_IBPB_(Indirect_Branch_Prediction_Barrier)_support.patch queue-4.15/x86speculation_Simplify_indirect_branch_prediction_barrier().patch queue-4.15/x86nospec_Fix_header_guards_names.patch queue-4.15/KVM_x86_Make_indirect_calls_in_emulator_speculation_safe.patch queue-4.15/x86retpoline_Simplify_vmexit_fill_RSB().patch queue-4.15/x86cpufeatures_Clean_up_Spectre_v2_related_CPUID_flags.patch