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<title>linux-stable.git/Documentation, branch v4.15.7</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>ext4: correct documentation for grpid mount option</title>
<updated>2018-02-22T14:40:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ernesto A. Fernández</name>
<email>ernesto.mnd.fernandez@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-11T18:43:33+00:00</published>
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commit 9f0372488cc9243018a812e8cfbf27de650b187b upstream.

The grpid option is currently described as being the same as nogrpid.

Signed-off-by: Ernesto A. Fernández &lt;ernesto.mnd.fernandez@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 9f0372488cc9243018a812e8cfbf27de650b187b upstream.

The grpid option is currently described as being the same as nogrpid.

Signed-off-by: Ernesto A. Fernández &lt;ernesto.mnd.fernandez@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm: spear13xx: Fix dmas cells</title>
<updated>2018-02-22T14:39:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Viresh Kumar</name>
<email>viresh.kumar@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-11T05:58:52+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=2429d573bc204fe62c9ae13dedc6d04b738acd18'/>
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commit cdd10409914184c7eee5ae3e11beb890c9c16c61 upstream.

The "dmas" cells for the designware DMA controller need to have only 3
properties apart from the phandle: request line, src master and
destination master. But the commit 6e8887f60f60 updated it incorrectly
while moving from platform code to DT. Fix it.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.10+
Fixes: 6e8887f60f60 ("ARM: SPEAr13xx: Pass generic DW DMAC platform data from DT")
Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit cdd10409914184c7eee5ae3e11beb890c9c16c61 upstream.

The "dmas" cells for the designware DMA controller need to have only 3
properties apart from the phandle: request line, src master and
destination master. But the commit 6e8887f60f60 updated it incorrectly
while moving from platform code to DT. Fix it.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.10+
Fixes: 6e8887f60f60 ("ARM: SPEAr13xx: Pass generic DW DMAC platform data from DT")
Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>media: dt-bindings/media/cec-gpio.txt: mention the CEC/HPD max voltages</title>
<updated>2018-02-16T19:06:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hans Verkuil</name>
<email>hverkuil@xs4all.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-16T10:44:13+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=de87fcee48bc7a373b5eda97cda36189ae17f321'/>
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commit dac15ed62dc9d7898d3695a3c393d6f712d66185 upstream.

Mention the maximum voltages of the CEC and HPD lines. Since in the example
these lines are connected to a Raspberry Pi and the Rpi GPIO lines are 3.3V
it is a good idea to warn against directly connecting the HPD to the Raspberry
Pi's GPIO line.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil &lt;hans.verkuil@cisco.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil &lt;hans.verkuil@cisco.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@s-opensource.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit dac15ed62dc9d7898d3695a3c393d6f712d66185 upstream.

Mention the maximum voltages of the CEC and HPD lines. Since in the example
these lines are connected to a Raspberry Pi and the Rpi GPIO lines are 3.3V
it is a good idea to warn against directly connecting the HPD to the Raspberry
Pi's GPIO line.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil &lt;hans.verkuil@cisco.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil &lt;hans.verkuil@cisco.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@s-opensource.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: cpu_errata: Add Kryo to Falkor 1003 errata</title>
<updated>2018-02-16T19:06:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Boyd</name>
<email>sboyd@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-13T22:19:37+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a5ed8761f80154414b4d259381d3997c9b6edb4f'/>
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Commit bb48711800e6 upstream.

The Kryo CPUs are also affected by the Falkor 1003 errata, so
we need to do the same workaround on Kryo CPUs. The MIDR is
slightly more complicated here, where the PART number is not
always the same when looking at all the bits from 15 to 4. Drop
the lower 8 bits and just look at the top 4 to see if it's '2'
and then consider those as Kryo CPUs. This covers all the
combinations without having to list them all out.

Fixes: 38fd94b0275c ("arm64: Work around Falkor erratum 1003")
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;

Conflicts:
	arch/arm64/include/asm/cputype.h
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Commit bb48711800e6 upstream.

The Kryo CPUs are also affected by the Falkor 1003 errata, so
we need to do the same workaround on Kryo CPUs. The MIDR is
slightly more complicated here, where the PART number is not
always the same when looking at all the bits from 15 to 4. Drop
the lower 8 bits and just look at the top 4 to see if it's '2'
and then consider those as Kryo CPUs. This covers all the
combinations without having to list them all out.

Fixes: 38fd94b0275c ("arm64: Work around Falkor erratum 1003")
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;

Conflicts:
	arch/arm64/include/asm/cputype.h
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/paravirt: Remove 'noreplace-paravirt' cmdline option</title>
<updated>2018-02-07T19:14:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-31T04:13:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=6e337065e6de2a79f2e508ec8e04fdc845edaeb7'/>
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commit 12c69f1e94c89d40696e83804dd2f0965b5250cd

The 'noreplace-paravirt' option disables paravirt patching, leaving the
original pv indirect calls in place.

That's highly incompatible with retpolines, unless we want to uglify
paravirt even further and convert the paravirt calls to retpolines.

As far as I can tell, the option doesn't seem to be useful for much
other than introducing surprising corner cases and making the kernel
vulnerable to Spectre v2.  It was probably a debug option from the early
paravirt days.  So just remove it.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ashok Raj &lt;ashok.raj@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jun Nakajima &lt;jun.nakajima@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Tim Chen &lt;tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Asit Mallick &lt;asit.k.mallick@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@akamai.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alok Kataria &lt;akataria@vmware.com&gt;
Cc: Arjan Van De Ven &lt;arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180131041333.2x6blhxirc2kclrq@treble
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;


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commit 12c69f1e94c89d40696e83804dd2f0965b5250cd

The 'noreplace-paravirt' option disables paravirt patching, leaving the
original pv indirect calls in place.

That's highly incompatible with retpolines, unless we want to uglify
paravirt even further and convert the paravirt calls to retpolines.

As far as I can tell, the option doesn't seem to be useful for much
other than introducing surprising corner cases and making the kernel
vulnerable to Spectre v2.  It was probably a debug option from the early
paravirt days.  So just remove it.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ashok Raj &lt;ashok.raj@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jun Nakajima &lt;jun.nakajima@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Tim Chen &lt;tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Asit Mallick &lt;asit.k.mallick@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@akamai.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alok Kataria &lt;akataria@vmware.com&gt;
Cc: Arjan Van De Ven &lt;arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180131041333.2x6blhxirc2kclrq@treble
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;


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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Documentation: Document array_index_nospec</title>
<updated>2018-02-07T19:14:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-30T01:02:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a35f71001b4048eb68bbcbbb01940e06a4e55881'/>
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commit f84a56f73dddaeac1dba8045b007f742f61cd2da

Document the rationale and usage of the new array_index_nospec() helper.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: alan@linux.intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/151727413645.33451.15878817161436755393.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;


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commit f84a56f73dddaeac1dba8045b007f742f61cd2da

Document the rationale and usage of the new array_index_nospec() helper.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: alan@linux.intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/151727413645.33451.15878817161436755393.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;


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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-01-21T18:48:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-21T18:48:35+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=5515114211c5096987b8e622c2ca57929cebabaa'/>
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Pull x86 pti fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A small set of fixes for the meltdown/spectre mitigations:

   - Make kprobes aware of retpolines to prevent probes in the retpoline
     thunks.

   - Make the machine check exception speculation protected. MCE used to
     issue an indirect call directly from the ASM entry code. Convert
     that to a direct call into a C-function and issue the indirect call
     from there so the compiler can add the retpoline protection,

   - Make the vmexit_fill_RSB() assembly less stupid

   - Fix a typo in the PTI documentation"

* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/retpoline: Optimize inline assembler for vmexit_fill_RSB
  x86/pti: Document fix wrong index
  kprobes/x86: Disable optimizing on the function jumps to indirect thunk
  kprobes/x86: Blacklist indirect thunk functions for kprobes
  retpoline: Introduce start/end markers of indirect thunk
  x86/mce: Make machine check speculation protected
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Pull x86 pti fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A small set of fixes for the meltdown/spectre mitigations:

   - Make kprobes aware of retpolines to prevent probes in the retpoline
     thunks.

   - Make the machine check exception speculation protected. MCE used to
     issue an indirect call directly from the ASM entry code. Convert
     that to a direct call into a C-function and issue the indirect call
     from there so the compiler can add the retpoline protection,

   - Make the vmexit_fill_RSB() assembly less stupid

   - Fix a typo in the PTI documentation"

* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/retpoline: Optimize inline assembler for vmexit_fill_RSB
  x86/pti: Document fix wrong index
  kprobes/x86: Disable optimizing on the function jumps to indirect thunk
  kprobes/x86: Blacklist indirect thunk functions for kprobes
  retpoline: Introduce start/end markers of indirect thunk
  x86/mce: Make machine check speculation protected
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/pti: Document fix wrong index</title>
<updated>2018-01-19T15:31:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>zhenwei.pi</name>
<email>zhenwei.pi@youruncloud.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-18T01:04:52+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=98f0fceec7f84d80bc053e49e596088573086421'/>
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<content type='text'>
In section &lt;2. Runtime Cost&gt;, fix wrong index.

Signed-off-by: zhenwei.pi &lt;zhenwei.pi@youruncloud.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1516237492-27739-1-git-send-email-zhenwei.pi@youruncloud.com

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In section &lt;2. Runtime Cost&gt;, fix wrong index.

Signed-off-by: zhenwei.pi &lt;zhenwei.pi@youruncloud.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1516237492-27739-1-git-send-email-zhenwei.pi@youruncloud.com

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S: Provide information about hardware/firmware CVE workarounds</title>
<updated>2018-01-19T04:17:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@ozlabs.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-15T05:06:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=3214d01f139b7544e870fc0b7fcce8da13c1cb51'/>
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This adds a new ioctl, KVM_PPC_GET_CPU_CHAR, that gives userspace
information about the underlying machine's level of vulnerability
to the recently announced vulnerabilities CVE-2017-5715,
CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5754, and whether the machine provides
instructions to assist software to work around the vulnerabilities.

The ioctl returns two u64 words describing characteristics of the
CPU and required software behaviour respectively, plus two mask
words which indicate which bits have been filled in by the kernel,
for extensibility.  The bit definitions are the same as for the
new H_GET_CPU_CHARACTERISTICS hypercall.

There is also a new capability, KVM_CAP_PPC_GET_CPU_CHAR, which
indicates whether the new ioctl is available.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
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This adds a new ioctl, KVM_PPC_GET_CPU_CHAR, that gives userspace
information about the underlying machine's level of vulnerability
to the recently announced vulnerabilities CVE-2017-5715,
CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5754, and whether the machine provides
instructions to assist software to work around the vulnerabilities.

The ioctl returns two u64 words describing characteristics of the
CPU and required software behaviour respectively, plus two mask
words which indicate which bits have been filled in by the kernel,
for extensibility.  The bit definitions are the same as for the
new H_GET_CPU_CHARACTERISTICS hypercall.

There is also a new capability, KVM_CAP_PPC_GET_CPU_CHAR, which
indicates whether the new ioctl is available.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-01-14T17:51:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-14T17:51:25+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 pti updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This contains:

   - a PTI bugfix to avoid setting reserved CR3 bits when PCID is
     disabled. This seems to cause issues on a virtual machine at least
     and is incorrect according to the AMD manual.

   - a PTI bugfix which disables the perf BTS facility if PTI is
     enabled. The BTS AUX buffer is not globally visible and causes the
     CPU to fault when the mapping disappears on switching CR3 to user
     space. A full fix which restores BTS on PTI is non trivial and will
     be worked on.

   - PTI bugfixes for EFI and trusted boot which make sure that the user
     space visible page table entries have the NX bit cleared

   - removal of dead code in the PTI pagetable setup functions

   - add PTI documentation

   - add a selftest for vsyscall to verify that the kernel actually
     implements what it advertises.

   - a sysfs interface to expose vulnerability and mitigation
     information so there is a coherent way for users to retrieve the
     status.

   - the initial spectre_v2 mitigations, aka retpoline:

      + The necessary ASM thunk and compiler support

      + The ASM variants of retpoline and the conversion of affected ASM
        code

      + Make LFENCE serializing on AMD so it can be used as speculation
        trap

      + The RSB fill after vmexit

   - initial objtool support for retpoline

  As I said in the status mail this is the most of the set of patches
  which should go into 4.15 except two straight forward patches still on
  hold:

   - the retpoline add on of LFENCE which waits for ACKs

   - the RSB fill after context switch

  Both should be ready to go early next week and with that we'll have
  covered the major holes of spectre_v2 and go back to normality"

* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (28 commits)
  x86,perf: Disable intel_bts when PTI
  security/Kconfig: Correct the Documentation reference for PTI
  x86/pti: Fix !PCID and sanitize defines
  selftests/x86: Add test_vsyscall
  x86/retpoline: Fill return stack buffer on vmexit
  x86/retpoline/irq32: Convert assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/checksum32: Convert assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/xen: Convert Xen hypercall indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/hyperv: Convert assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/ftrace: Convert ftrace assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/entry: Convert entry assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/crypto: Convert crypto assembler indirect jumps
  x86/spectre: Add boot time option to select Spectre v2 mitigation
  x86/retpoline: Add initial retpoline support
  objtool: Allow alternatives to be ignored
  objtool: Detect jumps to retpoline thunks
  x86/pti: Make unpoison of pgd for trusted boot work for real
  x86/alternatives: Fix optimize_nops() checking
  sysfs/cpu: Fix typos in vulnerability documentation
  x86/cpu/AMD: Use LFENCE_RDTSC in preference to MFENCE_RDTSC
  ...
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Pull x86 pti updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This contains:

   - a PTI bugfix to avoid setting reserved CR3 bits when PCID is
     disabled. This seems to cause issues on a virtual machine at least
     and is incorrect according to the AMD manual.

   - a PTI bugfix which disables the perf BTS facility if PTI is
     enabled. The BTS AUX buffer is not globally visible and causes the
     CPU to fault when the mapping disappears on switching CR3 to user
     space. A full fix which restores BTS on PTI is non trivial and will
     be worked on.

   - PTI bugfixes for EFI and trusted boot which make sure that the user
     space visible page table entries have the NX bit cleared

   - removal of dead code in the PTI pagetable setup functions

   - add PTI documentation

   - add a selftest for vsyscall to verify that the kernel actually
     implements what it advertises.

   - a sysfs interface to expose vulnerability and mitigation
     information so there is a coherent way for users to retrieve the
     status.

   - the initial spectre_v2 mitigations, aka retpoline:

      + The necessary ASM thunk and compiler support

      + The ASM variants of retpoline and the conversion of affected ASM
        code

      + Make LFENCE serializing on AMD so it can be used as speculation
        trap

      + The RSB fill after vmexit

   - initial objtool support for retpoline

  As I said in the status mail this is the most of the set of patches
  which should go into 4.15 except two straight forward patches still on
  hold:

   - the retpoline add on of LFENCE which waits for ACKs

   - the RSB fill after context switch

  Both should be ready to go early next week and with that we'll have
  covered the major holes of spectre_v2 and go back to normality"

* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (28 commits)
  x86,perf: Disable intel_bts when PTI
  security/Kconfig: Correct the Documentation reference for PTI
  x86/pti: Fix !PCID and sanitize defines
  selftests/x86: Add test_vsyscall
  x86/retpoline: Fill return stack buffer on vmexit
  x86/retpoline/irq32: Convert assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/checksum32: Convert assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/xen: Convert Xen hypercall indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/hyperv: Convert assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/ftrace: Convert ftrace assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/entry: Convert entry assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/crypto: Convert crypto assembler indirect jumps
  x86/spectre: Add boot time option to select Spectre v2 mitigation
  x86/retpoline: Add initial retpoline support
  objtool: Allow alternatives to be ignored
  objtool: Detect jumps to retpoline thunks
  x86/pti: Make unpoison of pgd for trusted boot work for real
  x86/alternatives: Fix optimize_nops() checking
  sysfs/cpu: Fix typos in vulnerability documentation
  x86/cpu/AMD: Use LFENCE_RDTSC in preference to MFENCE_RDTSC
  ...
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