Patch "nospec: Include <asm/barrier.h> dependency" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    nospec: Include <asm/barrier.h> dependency

to the 4.9-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:
     nospec-include-asm-barrier.h-dependency.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 eb6174f6d1be16b19cfa43dac296bfed003ce1a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 13:20:54 -0800
Subject: nospec: Include <asm/barrier.h> dependency

From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

commit eb6174f6d1be16b19cfa43dac296bfed003ce1a6 upstream.

The nospec.h header expects the per-architecture header file
<asm/barrier.h> to optionally define array_index_mask_nospec(). Include
that dependency to prevent inadvertent fallback to the default
array_index_mask_nospec() implementation.

The default implementation may not provide a full mitigation
on architectures that perform data value speculation.

Reported-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151881605404.17395.1341935530792574707.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 include/linux/nospec.h |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/include/linux/nospec.h
+++ b/include/linux/nospec.h
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 
 #ifndef _LINUX_NOSPEC_H
 #define _LINUX_NOSPEC_H
+#include <asm/barrier.h>
 
 /**
  * array_index_mask_nospec() - generate a ~0 mask when index < size, 0 otherwise


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.j.williams@intel.com are

queue-4.9/nospec-include-asm-barrier.h-dependency.patch
queue-4.9/x86-speculation-objtool-annotate-indirect-calls-jumps-for-objtool.patch
queue-4.9/nospec-kill-array_index_nospec_mask_check.patch