This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

x86/spectre: Report get_user mitigation for spectre_v1

to the 4.14-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: x86spectre_Report_get_user_mitigation_for_spectre_v1.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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: x86/spectre: Report get_user mitigation for spectre_v1 From: Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com Date: Mon Jan 29 17:03:21 2018 -0800

From: Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com

commit edfbae53dab8348fca778531be9f4855d2ca0360

Reflect the presence of get_user(), __get_user(), and 'syscall' protections in sysfs. The expectation is that new and better tooling will allow the kernel to grow more usages of array_index_nospec(), for now, only claim mitigation for __user pointer de-references.

Reported-by: Jiri Slaby jslaby@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: alan@linux.intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/151727420158.33451.11658324346540434635.stgit@dwil... Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c @@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ ssize_t cpu_show_spectre_v1(struct devic { if (!boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_SPECTRE_V1)) return sprintf(buf, "Not affected\n"); - return sprintf(buf, "Vulnerable\n"); + return sprintf(buf, "Mitigation: __user pointer sanitization\n"); }

ssize_t cpu_show_spectre_v2(struct device *dev,

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jslaby@suse.cz are

queue-4.14/x86spectre_Report_get_user_mitigation_for_spectre_v1.patch