[PATCH 5.4 00/18] 5.4.184-rc1 review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Mar 09 2022 - 11:21:28 EST


This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.4.184 release.
There are 18 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
let me know.

Responses should be made by Fri, 11 Mar 2022 15:58:48 +0000.
Anything received after that time might be too late.

The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.4.184-rc1.gz
or in the git tree and branch at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.4.y
and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Linux 5.4.184-rc1

Emmanuel Gil Peyrot <linkmauve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
ARM: fix build error when BPF_SYSCALL is disabled

Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
ARM: include unprivileged BPF status in Spectre V2 reporting

Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
ARM: Spectre-BHB workaround

Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
ARM: use LOADADDR() to get load address of sections

Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
ARM: early traps initialisation

Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
ARM: report Spectre v2 status through sysfs

Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
arm/arm64: smccc/psci: add arm_smccc_1_1_get_conduit()

Steven Price <steven.price@xxxxxxx>
arm/arm64: Provide a wrapper for SMCCC 1.1 calls

Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
x86/speculation: Warn about eIBRS + LFENCE + Unprivileged eBPF + SMT

Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
x86/speculation: Warn about Spectre v2 LFENCE mitigation

Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@xxxxxxx>
x86/speculation: Update link to AMD speculation whitepaper

Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@xxxxxxx>
x86/speculation: Use generic retpoline by default on AMD

Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
x86/speculation: Include unprivileged eBPF status in Spectre v2 mitigation reporting

Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Documentation/hw-vuln: Update spectre doc

Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
x86/speculation: Add eIBRS + Retpoline options

Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
x86/speculation: Rename RETPOLINE_AMD to RETPOLINE_LFENCE

Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
x86,bugs: Unconditionally allow spectre_v2=retpoline,amd

Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
x86/speculation: Merge one test in spectre_v2_user_select_mitigation()


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Diffstat:

Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst | 48 ++++--
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 8 +-
Makefile | 4 +-
arch/arm/include/asm/assembler.h | 10 ++
arch/arm/include/asm/spectre.h | 32 ++++
arch/arm/kernel/Makefile | 2 +
arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S | 79 ++++++++-
arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S | 24 +++
arch/arm/kernel/spectre.c | 71 ++++++++
arch/arm/kernel/traps.c | 65 ++++++-
arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.h | 35 +++-
arch/arm/mm/Kconfig | 11 ++
arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-bugs.c | 199 +++++++++++++++++++---
arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 2 +-
arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h | 16 +-
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 216 +++++++++++++++++-------
drivers/firmware/psci/psci.c | 15 ++
include/linux/arm-smccc.h | 74 ++++++++
include/linux/bpf.h | 12 ++
kernel/sysctl.c | 8 +
tools/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 2 +-
21 files changed, 796 insertions(+), 137 deletions(-)