Patch "x86/cpu: Factor out application of forced CPU caps" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    x86/cpu: Factor out application of forced CPU caps

to the 4.4-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-cpu-factor-out-application-of-forced-cpu-caps.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 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 8bf1ebca215c262e48c15a4a15f175991776f57f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 11:15:38 -0800
Subject: x86/cpu: Factor out application of forced CPU caps

From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>

commit 8bf1ebca215c262e48c15a4a15f175991776f57f upstream.

There are multiple call sites that apply forced CPU caps.  Factor
them into a helper.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matthew Whitehead <tedheadster@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/623ff7555488122143e4417de09b18be2085ad06.1484705016.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c |   22 +++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -664,6 +664,16 @@ void cpu_detect(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 	}
 }
 
+static void apply_forced_caps(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
+{
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < NCAPINTS; i++) {
+		c->x86_capability[i] &= ~cpu_caps_cleared[i];
+		c->x86_capability[i] |= cpu_caps_set[i];
+	}
+}
+
 void get_cpu_cap(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 {
 	u32 tfms, xlvl;
@@ -955,11 +965,8 @@ static void identify_cpu(struct cpuinfo_
 	if (this_cpu->c_identify)
 		this_cpu->c_identify(c);
 
-	/* Clear/Set all flags overriden by options, after probe */
-	for (i = 0; i < NCAPINTS; i++) {
-		c->x86_capability[i] &= ~cpu_caps_cleared[i];
-		c->x86_capability[i] |= cpu_caps_set[i];
-	}
+ 	/* Clear/Set all flags overridden by options, after probe */
+	apply_forced_caps(c);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
 	c->apicid = apic->phys_pkg_id(c->initial_apicid, 0);
@@ -1020,10 +1027,7 @@ static void identify_cpu(struct cpuinfo_
 	 * Clear/Set all flags overriden by options, need do it
 	 * before following smp all cpus cap AND.
 	 */
-	for (i = 0; i < NCAPINTS; i++) {
-		c->x86_capability[i] &= ~cpu_caps_cleared[i];
-		c->x86_capability[i] |= cpu_caps_set[i];
-	}
+	apply_forced_caps(c);
 
 	/*
 	 * On SMP, boot_cpu_data holds the common feature set between


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from luto@kernel.org are

queue-4.4/x86-mm-pat-dev-mem-remove-superfluous-error-message.patch
queue-4.4/x86-cpufeatures-add-x86_bug_cpu_insecure.patch
queue-4.4/x86-cpufeatures-make-cpu-bugs-sticky.patch
queue-4.4/x86-vsdo-fix-build-on-paravirt_clock-y-kvm_guest-n.patch
queue-4.4/x86-pti-efi-broken-conversion-from-efi-to-kernel-page-table.patch
queue-4.4/x86-documentation-add-pti-description.patch
queue-4.4/x86-cpu-factor-out-application-of-forced-cpu-caps.patch
queue-4.4/selftests-x86-add-test_vsyscall.patch
queue-4.4/x86-cpu-merge-bugs.c-and-bugs_64.c.patch
queue-4.4/x86-alternatives-fix-optimize_nops-checking.patch