Patch "x86/xen: Zero MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL before suspend" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

Patch "x86/xen: Zero MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL before suspend" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[gregkh]

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

    x86/xen: Zero MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL before suspend

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-xen-zero-msr_ia32_spec_ctrl-before-suspend.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 71c208dd54ab971036d83ff6d9837bae4976e623 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 15:08:18 +0100
Subject: x86/xen: Zero MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL before suspend

From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>

commit 71c208dd54ab971036d83ff6d9837bae4976e623 upstream.

Older Xen versions (4.5 and before) might have problems migrating pv
guests with MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL having a non-zero value. So before
suspending zero that MSR and restore it after being resumed.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180226140818.4849-1-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/xen/suspend.c |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/x86/xen/suspend.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/suspend.c
@@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
 #include <linux/types.h>
 #include <linux/tick.h>
+#include <linux/percpu-defs.h>
 
 #include <xen/xen.h>
 #include <xen/interface/xen.h>
 #include <xen/grant_table.h>
 #include <xen/events.h>
 
+#include <asm/cpufeatures.h>
+#include <asm/msr-index.h>
 #include <asm/xen/hypercall.h>
 #include <asm/xen/page.h>
 #include <asm/fixmap.h>
@@ -68,6 +71,8 @@ static void xen_pv_post_suspend(int susp
 	xen_mm_unpin_all();
 }
 
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(u64, spec_ctrl);
+
 void xen_arch_pre_suspend(void)
 {
 	if (xen_pv_domain())
@@ -84,6 +89,9 @@ void xen_arch_post_suspend(int cancelled
 
 static void xen_vcpu_notify_restore(void *data)
 {
+	if (xen_pv_domain() && boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SPEC_CTRL))
+		wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, this_cpu_read(spec_ctrl));
+
 	/* Boot processor notified via generic timekeeping_resume() */
 	if (smp_processor_id() == 0)
 		return;
@@ -93,7 +101,15 @@ static void xen_vcpu_notify_restore(void
 
 static void xen_vcpu_notify_suspend(void *data)
 {
+	u64 tmp;
+
 	tick_suspend_local();
+
+	if (xen_pv_domain() && boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SPEC_CTRL)) {
+		rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, tmp);
+		this_cpu_write(spec_ctrl, tmp);
+		wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, 0);
+	}
 }
 
 void xen_arch_resume(void)


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jgross@suse.com are

queue-4.4/x86-xen-zero-msr_ia32_spec_ctrl-before-suspend.patch

Re: Patch "x86/xen: Zero MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL before suspend" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 10:50:09AM -0800, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> 
> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> 
>     x86/xen: Zero MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL before suspend
> 
> 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-xen-zero-msr_ia32_spec_ctrl-before-suspend.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.

Oops, nope, this doesn't work for 4.4.y because the needed
infrastructure is not backported there.

Now dropped, sorry for the noise.

greg k-h