Re: Stable linux-5.10.x regression triggered by MDS mitigation

[Jari Ruusu]

On Monday, July 1st, 2024 at 15:27, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 01:02:35PM +0000, Jari Ruusu wrote:
> > On Tuesday, June 25th, 2024 at 21:01, Pawan Gupta pawan.kumar.gupta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > Thanks for pointing this out, CLEAR_CPU_BUFFERS should happen before POPFL.
> > > Below patch moves it before POPFL and also adds a safer version that
> > > switches to KERNEL_DS before executing VERW. This should ensure VERW works
> > > in all cases:
> > 
> > Your patch looks OK to me. Thanks.
> > Tested on linux-5.10.220 inside 32-bit VM.
> 
> Great! Hopefully someone submits this to the stable tree so we can
> accept it...

Upstream is still not fixed. My understanding is that the patch
is on its way to upstream already, but not there yet.

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