[GIT PULL] smp/urgent fixes

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Jun 29 2019 - 15:45:44 EST


Linus,

Please pull the latest smp-urgent-for-linus git tree from:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git smp-urgent-for-linus

# HEAD: 33d4a5a7a5b4d02915d765064b2319e90a11cbde cpu/hotplug: Fix out-of-bounds read when setting fail state

Two fixes:

- Fix an out of bounds access when writing nonsensical values to
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/hotplug/fail

- Warn about unsupported mitigations= parameters.

Thanks,

Ingo

------------------>
Eiichi Tsukata (1):
cpu/hotplug: Fix out-of-bounds read when setting fail state

Geert Uytterhoeven (1):
cpu/speculation: Warn on unsupported mitigations= parameter


kernel/cpu.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c
index 077fde6fb953..ef1c565edc5d 100644
--- a/kernel/cpu.c
+++ b/kernel/cpu.c
@@ -1964,6 +1964,9 @@ static ssize_t write_cpuhp_fail(struct device *dev,
if (ret)
return ret;

+ if (fail < CPUHP_OFFLINE || fail > CPUHP_ONLINE)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
/*
* Cannot fail STARTING/DYING callbacks.
*/
@@ -2339,6 +2342,9 @@ static int __init mitigations_parse_cmdline(char *arg)
cpu_mitigations = CPU_MITIGATIONS_AUTO;
else if (!strcmp(arg, "auto,nosmt"))
cpu_mitigations = CPU_MITIGATIONS_AUTO_NOSMT;
+ else
+ pr_crit("Unsupported mitigations=%s, system may still be vulnerable\n",
+ arg);

return 0;
}