Patch "KVM: VMX: Make indirect call speculation safe" 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

    KVM: VMX: Make indirect call speculation safe

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:
     kvm-vmx-make-indirect-call-speculation-safe.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 foo@baz Wed Feb  7 19:38:23 CST 2018
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 10:58:14 +0100
Subject: KVM: VMX: Make indirect call speculation safe

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

(cherry picked from commit c940a3fb1e2e9b7d03228ab28f375fb5a47ff699)

Replace indirect call with CALL_NOSPEC.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: rga@amazon.de
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Asit Mallick <asit.k.mallick@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Arjan Van De Ven <arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180125095843.645776917@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -8676,14 +8676,14 @@ static void vmx_handle_external_intr(str
 #endif
 			"pushf\n\t"
 			__ASM_SIZE(push) " $%c[cs]\n\t"
-			"call *%[entry]\n\t"
+			CALL_NOSPEC
 			:
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
 			[sp]"=&r"(tmp),
 #endif
 			"+r"(__sp)
 			:
-			[entry]"r"(entry),
+			THUNK_TARGET(entry),
 			[ss]"i"(__KERNEL_DS),
 			[cs]"i"(__KERNEL_CS)
 			);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from peterz@infradead.org are

queue-4.9/kvm-x86-add-ibpb-support.patch
queue-4.9/x86-cpufeatures-add-intel-feature-bits-for-speculation-control.patch
queue-4.9/x86-cpufeatures-add-cpuid_7_edx-cpuid-leaf.patch
queue-4.9/kvm-x86-make-indirect-calls-in-emulator-speculation-safe.patch
queue-4.9/x86-cpufeature-blacklist-spec_ctrl-pred_cmd-on-early-spectre-v2-microcodes.patch
queue-4.9/x86-asm-fix-inline-asm-call-constraints-for-gcc-4.4.patch
queue-4.9/kvm-vmx-make-indirect-call-speculation-safe.patch
queue-4.9/x86-cpufeatures-add-amd-feature-bits-for-speculation-control.patch
queue-4.9/x86-msr-add-definitions-for-new-speculation-control-msrs.patch
queue-4.9/x86-pti-make-unpoison-of-pgd-for-trusted-boot-work-for-real.patch
queue-4.9/kaiser-fix-intel_bts-perf-crashes.patch
queue-4.9/x86-retpoline-remove-the-esp-rsp-thunk.patch
queue-4.9/x86-pti-do-not-enable-pti-on-cpus-which-are-not-vulnerable-to-meltdown.patch