Patch "x86/cpufeatures: Add X86_BUG_SPECTRE_V[12]" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    x86/cpufeatures: Add X86_BUG_SPECTRE_V[12]

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     x86-cpufeatures-add-x86_bug_spectre_v.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 99c6fa2511d8a683e61468be91b83f85452115fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2018 11:49:23 +0000
Subject: x86/cpufeatures: Add X86_BUG_SPECTRE_V[12]

From: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>

commit 99c6fa2511d8a683e61468be91b83f85452115fa upstream.

Add the bug bits for spectre v1/2 and force them unconditionally for all
cpus.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.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/1515239374-23361-2-git-send-email-dwmw@amazon.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
@@ -342,5 +342,7 @@
 #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_MELTDOWN		X86_BUG(14) /* CPU is affected by meltdown attack and needs kernel page table isolation */
+#define X86_BUG_SPECTRE_V1		X86_BUG(15) /* CPU is affected by Spectre variant 1 attack with conditional branches */
+#define X86_BUG_SPECTRE_V2		X86_BUG(16) /* CPU is affected by Spectre variant 2 attack with indirect branches */
 
 #endif /* _ASM_X86_CPUFEATURES_H */
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -902,6 +902,9 @@ static void __init early_identify_cpu(st
 	if (c->x86_vendor != X86_VENDOR_AMD)
 		setup_force_cpu_bug(X86_BUG_CPU_MELTDOWN);
 
+	setup_force_cpu_bug(X86_BUG_SPECTRE_V1);
+	setup_force_cpu_bug(X86_BUG_SPECTRE_V2);
+
 	fpu__init_system(c);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dwmw@amazon.co.uk are

queue-4.14/x86-cpufeatures-add-x86_bug_spectre_v.patch
queue-4.14/sysfs-cpu-add-vulnerability-folder.patch