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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [stable:PATCH v5.4.225 0/2] arm64: errata: Spectre-BHB fixes
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2022 14:32:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y4tP9+uUkOPhvSUZ@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221130182819.739068-1-james.morse@arm.com>

On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 06:28:17PM +0000, James Morse wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> The first patch fixes an issue reported by Sami, where linux panic()s
> when bringing secondary CPUs online. The problem was the Spectre
> workarounds trying to allocate a new slot for mitigating KVM when
> those pages are no longer writeable.
> 
> While debugging that issue, I spotted the Spectre-BHB KVM mitigation was
> over-riding the Spectre-v2 KVM Mitigation. It's supposed to happen the
> other way round.
> 
> The backports aren't the same as mainline because the spectre mitigation code
> was totally rewritten for v5.10, and prior to that the KVM infrastructure
> is very different.

All now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-12-03 13:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-30 18:28 [stable:PATCH v5.4.225 0/2] arm64: errata: Spectre-BHB fixes James Morse
2022-11-30 18:28 ` [stable:PATCH v5.4.225 1/2] arm64: Fix panic() when Spectre-v2 causes Spectre-BHB to re-allocate KVM vectors James Morse
2022-12-03 13:55   ` Patch "arm64: Fix panic() when Spectre-v2 causes Spectre-BHB to re-allocate KVM vectors" has been added to the 5.4-stable tree gregkh
2022-11-30 18:28 ` [stable:PATCH v5.4.225 2/2] arm64: errata: Fix KVM Spectre-v2 mitigation selection for Cortex-A57/A72 James Morse
2022-12-03 13:55   ` Patch "arm64: errata: Fix KVM Spectre-v2 mitigation selection for Cortex-A57/A72" has been added to the 5.4-stable tree gregkh
2022-12-03 13:32 ` Greg KH [this message]

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