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

x86/pti: Rename BUG_CPU_INSECURE to BUG_CPU_MELTDOWN

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: x86-pti-rename-bug_cpu_insecure-to-bug_cpu_meltdown.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.

From de791821c295cc61419a06fe5562288417d1bc58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 15:27:34 +0100 Subject: x86/pti: Rename BUG_CPU_INSECURE to BUG_CPU_MELTDOWN

From: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de

commit de791821c295cc61419a06fe5562288417d1bc58 upstream.

Use the name associated with the particular attack which needs page table isolation for mitigation.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Acked-by: David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk Cc: Alan Cox gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Cc: Jiri Koshina jikos@kernel.org Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Tim Chen tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com Cc: Andi Lutomirski luto@amacapital.net Cc: Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Paul Turner pjt@google.com Cc: Tom Lendacky thomas.lendacky@amd.com Cc: Greg KH gregkh@linux-foundation.org Cc: Dave Hansen dave.hansen@intel.com Cc: Kees Cook keescook@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1801051525300.1724@nanos Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 2 +- arch/x86/mm/pti.c | 6 +++--- 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h @@ -341,6 +341,6 @@ #define X86_BUG_SWAPGS_FENCE X86_BUG(11) /* SWAPGS without input dep on GS */ #define X86_BUG_MONITOR X86_BUG(12) /* IPI required to wake up remote CPU */ #define X86_BUG_AMD_E400 X86_BUG(13) /* CPU is among the affected by Erratum 400 */ -#define X86_BUG_CPU_INSECURE X86_BUG(14) /* CPU is insecure and needs kernel page table isolation */ +#define X86_BUG_CPU_MELTDOWN X86_BUG(14) /* CPU is affected by meltdown attack and needs kernel page table isolation */

#endif /* _ASM_X86_CPUFEATURES_H */ --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c @@ -900,7 +900,7 @@ static void __init early_identify_cpu(st setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS);

if (c->x86_vendor != X86_VENDOR_AMD) - setup_force_cpu_bug(X86_BUG_CPU_INSECURE); + setup_force_cpu_bug(X86_BUG_CPU_MELTDOWN);

fpu__init_system(c);

--- a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c @@ -56,13 +56,13 @@

static void __init pti_print_if_insecure(const char *reason) { - if (boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_CPU_INSECURE)) + if (boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_CPU_MELTDOWN)) pr_info("%s\n", reason); }

static void __init pti_print_if_secure(const char *reason) { - if (!boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_CPU_INSECURE)) + if (!boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_CPU_MELTDOWN)) pr_info("%s\n", reason); }

@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ void __init pti_check_boottime_disable(v }

autosel: - if (!boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_CPU_INSECURE)) + if (!boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_CPU_MELTDOWN)) return; enable: setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_PTI);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tglx@linutronix.de are

queue-4.14/x86-tlb-drop-the-_gpl-from-the-cpu_tlbstate-export.patch queue-4.14/x86-alternatives-add-missing-n-at-end-of-alternative-inline-asm.patch queue-4.14/x86-kaslr-fix-the-vaddr_end-mess.patch queue-4.14/efi-capsule-loader-reinstate-virtual-capsule-mapping.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-set-modules_end-to-0xffffffffff000000.patch queue-4.14/mm-sparse.c-wrong-allocation-for-mem_section.patch queue-4.14/x86-events-intel-ds-use-the-proper-cache-flush-method-for-mapping-ds-buffers.patch queue-4.14/x86-pti-rename-bug_cpu_insecure-to-bug_cpu_meltdown.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-map-cpu_entry_area-at-the-same-place-on-4-5-level.patch