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

x86/entry/64: Shorten TEST instructions

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-entry-64-shorten-test-instructions.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 1e4c4f610f774df6088d7c065b2dd4d22adba698 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 13:09:26 +0100 Subject: x86/entry/64: Shorten TEST instructions

From: Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de

commit 1e4c4f610f774df6088d7c065b2dd4d22adba698 upstream.

Convert TESTL to TESTB and save 3 bytes per callsite.

No functionality change.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de Cc: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Cc: Brian Gerst brgerst@gmail.com Cc: Dave Hansen dave.hansen@intel.com Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171102120926.4srwerqrr7g72e2k@pd.tnic Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S +++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S @@ -621,7 +621,7 @@ GLOBAL(retint_user) GLOBAL(swapgs_restore_regs_and_return_to_usermode) #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_ENTRY /* Assert that pt_regs indicates user mode. */ - testl $3, CS(%rsp) + testb $3, CS(%rsp) jnz 1f ud2 1: @@ -654,7 +654,7 @@ retint_kernel: GLOBAL(restore_regs_and_return_to_kernel) #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_ENTRY /* Assert that pt_regs indicates kernel mode. */ - testl $3, CS(%rsp) + testb $3, CS(%rsp) jz 1f ud2 1:

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bp@suse.de are

queue-4.14/x86-make-x86_bug_fxsave_leak-detectable-in-cpuid-on-amd.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-move-the-ist-stacks-into-struct-cpu_entry_area.patch queue-4.14/x86-dumpstack-add-get_stack_info-support-for-the-sysenter-stack.patch queue-4.14/x86-xen-provide-pre-built-page-tables-only-for-config_xen_pv-y-and-config_xen_pvh-y.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-fixmap-generalize-the-gdt-fixmap-mechanism-introduce-struct-cpu_entry_area.patch queue-4.14/x86-xen-drop-5-level-paging-support-code-from-the-xen_pv-code.patch queue-4.14/x86-dumpstack-handle-stack-overflow-on-all-stacks.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-use-pop-instead-of-movq-in-syscall_return_via_sysret.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-return-to-userspace-from-the-trampoline-stack.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-remove-the-restore_c_regs_and_iret-label.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-remove-all-remaining-direct-thread_struct-sp0-reads.patch queue-4.14/x86-boot-relocate-definition-of-the-initial-state-of-cr0.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-de-xen-ify-our-nmi-code.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-pass-sp0-directly-to-load_sp0.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-use-a-per-cpu-trampoline-stack-for-idt-entries.patch queue-4.14/acpi-apei-remove-the-unused-dead-code-for-sea-nmi-notification-type.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-shorten-test-instructions.patch queue-4.14/acpi-apei-replace-ioremap_page_range-with-fixmap.patch queue-4.14/x86-cpufeature-add-user-mode-instruction-prevention-definitions.patch queue-4.14/x86-cpufeatures-make-cpu-bugs-sticky.patch queue-4.14/x86-espfix-64-stop-assuming-that-pt_regs-is-on-the-entry-stack.patch queue-4.14/x86-traps-use-a-new-on_thread_stack-helper-to-clean-up-an-assertion.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-define-_page_table-using-_kernpg_table.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-move-sysenter_stack-to-the-beginning-of-struct-tss_struct.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-allocate-and-enable-the-sysenter-stack.patch queue-4.14/x86-kasan-use-the-same-shadow-offset-for-4-and-5-level-paging.patch queue-4.14/mm-sparsemem-allocate-mem_section-at-runtime-for-config_sparsemem_extreme-y.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-remove-the-sysenter-stack-canary.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-gdt-put-per-cpu-gdt-remaps-in-ascending-order.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-fix-assumptions-that-the-hw-tss-is-at-the-beginning-of-cpu_tss.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-32-fix-cpu_current_top_of_stack-initialization-at-boot.patch queue-4.14/ptrace-x86-make-user_64bit_mode-available-to-32-bit-builds.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-relocate-page-fault-error-codes-to-traps.h.patch queue-4.14/x86-irq-64-print-the-offending-ip-in-the-stack-overflow-warning.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-separate-cpu_current_top_of_stack-from-tss.sp0.patch queue-4.14/x86-irq-remove-an-old-outdated-comment-about-context-tracking-races.patch queue-4.14/acpi-apei-adjust-a-local-variable-type-in-ghes_ioremap_pfn_irq.patch