This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/retpoline/checksum32: Convert assembler indirect jumps
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-retpoline-checksum32-convert-assembler-indirect-jumps.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 5096732f6f695001fa2d6f1335a2680b37912c69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 21:46:32 +0000 Subject: x86/retpoline/checksum32: Convert assembler indirect jumps
From: David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk
commit 5096732f6f695001fa2d6f1335a2680b37912c69 upstream.
Convert all indirect jumps in 32bit checksum assembler code to use non-speculative sequences when CONFIG_RETPOLINE is enabled.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven arjan@linux.intel.com Acked-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Cc: gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Cc: Rik van Riel riel@redhat.com Cc: Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com Cc: Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com Cc: thomas.lendacky@amd.com Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Jiri Kosina jikos@kernel.org Cc: Andy Lutomirski luto@amacapital.net Cc: Dave Hansen dave.hansen@intel.com Cc: Kees Cook keescook@google.com Cc: Tim Chen tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linux-foundation.org Cc: Paul Turner pjt@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1515707194-20531-11-git-send-email-dwmw@amazon.co.... Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- arch/x86/lib/checksum_32.S | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/lib/checksum_32.S +++ b/arch/x86/lib/checksum_32.S @@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ #include <linux/linkage.h> #include <asm/errno.h> #include <asm/asm.h> - +#include <asm/nospec-branch.h> + /* * computes a partial checksum, e.g. for TCP/UDP fragments */ @@ -155,7 +156,7 @@ ENTRY(csum_partial) negl %ebx lea 45f(%ebx,%ebx,2), %ebx testl %esi, %esi - jmp *%ebx + JMP_NOSPEC %ebx
# Handle 2-byte-aligned regions 20: addw (%esi), %ax @@ -437,7 +438,7 @@ ENTRY(csum_partial_copy_generic) andl $-32,%edx lea 3f(%ebx,%ebx), %ebx testl %esi, %esi - jmp *%ebx + JMP_NOSPEC %ebx 1: addl $64,%esi addl $64,%edi SRC(movb -32(%edx),%bl) ; SRC(movb (%edx),%bl)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dwmw@amazon.co.uk are
queue-4.4/x86-spectre-add-boot-time-option-to-select-spectre-v2-mitigation.patch queue-4.4/x86-retpoline-irq32-convert-assembler-indirect-jumps.patch queue-4.4/x86-retpoline-hyperv-convert-assembler-indirect-jumps.patch queue-4.4/x86-retpoline-entry-convert-entry-assembler-indirect-jumps.patch queue-4.4/x86-cpu-amd-make-lfence-a-serializing-instruction.patch queue-4.4/x86-retpoline-ftrace-convert-ftrace-assembler-indirect-jumps.patch queue-4.4/x86-retpoline-crypto-convert-crypto-assembler-indirect-jumps.patch queue-4.4/x86-retpoline-xen-convert-xen-hypercall-indirect-jumps.patch queue-4.4/x86-retpoline-checksum32-convert-assembler-indirect-jumps.patch queue-4.4/x86-mm-32-move-setup_clear_cpu_cap-x86_feature_pcid-earlier.patch queue-4.4/x86-retpoline-fill-return-stack-buffer-on-vmexit.patch queue-4.4/x86-retpoline-remove-compile-time-warning.patch queue-4.4/x86-cpu-amd-use-lfence_rdtsc-in-preference-to-mfence_rdtsc.patch queue-4.4/x86-retpoline-add-initial-retpoline-support.patch