From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/speculation/l1tf: Add assembly guard for xtensa/ia64
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 15:36:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180815223658.GA11323@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180815215646.12653-1-andi@firstfloor.org>
On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 02:56:46PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
>
> The stable backport of the
>
> x86/speculation/l1tf: Disallow non privileged high MMIO PROT_NONE mappings
>
> patch for 4.4 and 4.9 put new C code for !__HAVE_ARCH_PFN_MODIFY_ALLOWED
> code outside the assembler ifdef. This breaks the xtensa and ia64
> build as reported by 0day which somehow include this file
> into assembler.
>
> Just add an #ifdef __ASSEMBLY__ around the new code to fix this.
>
> This patch is only needed for 4.9 and 4.4 stable, the newer stables
> don't have this problem.
>
> Fixes: 7c5b42f82c13 ("x86/speculation/l1tf: Disallow non privileged high MMIO PROT_NONE mappings")
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
This should be fixed in the final stable releases.
The problem was caused by a couple of missing backports.
Guenter
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2018-08-15 21:56 [PATCH] x86/speculation/l1tf: Add assembly guard for xtensa/ia64 Andi Kleen
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