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

x86/retpoline/hyperv: 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-hyperv-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 e70e5892b28c18f517f29ab6e83bd57705104b31 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 21:46:30 +0000 Subject: x86/retpoline/hyperv: Convert assembler indirect jumps

From: David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk

commit e70e5892b28c18f517f29ab6e83bd57705104b31 upstream.

Convert all indirect jumps in hyperv inline asm 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/1515707194-20531-9-git-send-email-dwmw@amazon.co.u... [ backport to 4.4, hopefully correct, not tested... - gregkh ] Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/hv/hv.c | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/hv/hv.c +++ b/drivers/hv/hv.c @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ #include <linux/clockchips.h> #include <asm/hyperv.h> #include <asm/mshyperv.h> +#include <asm/nospec-branch.h> #include "hyperv_vmbus.h"

/* The one and only */ @@ -103,9 +104,10 @@ static u64 do_hypercall(u64 control, voi return (u64)ULLONG_MAX;

__asm__ __volatile__("mov %0, %%r8" : : "r" (output_address) : "r8"); - __asm__ __volatile__("call *%3" : "=a" (hv_status) : + __asm__ __volatile__(CALL_NOSPEC : + "=a" (hv_status) : "c" (control), "d" (input_address), - "m" (hypercall_page)); + THUNK_TARGET(hypercall_page));

return hv_status;

@@ -123,11 +125,12 @@ static u64 do_hypercall(u64 control, voi if (!hypercall_page) return (u64)ULLONG_MAX;

- __asm__ __volatile__ ("call *%8" : "=d"(hv_status_hi), + __asm__ __volatile__ (CALL_NOSPEC : "=d"(hv_status_hi), "=a"(hv_status_lo) : "d" (control_hi), "a" (control_lo), "b" (input_address_hi), "c" (input_address_lo), "D"(output_address_hi), - "S"(output_address_lo), "m" (hypercall_page)); + "S"(output_address_lo), + THUNK_TARGET(hypercall_page));

return hv_status_lo | ((u64)hv_status_hi << 32); #endif /* !x86_64 */

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