3.16.68-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Tim Chen tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
commit 8eb729b77faf83ac4c1f363a9ad68d042415f24c upstream.
"Reduced Data Speculation" is an obsolete term. The correct new name is "Speculative store bypass disable" - which is abbreviated into SSBD.
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Jiri Kosina jkosina@suse.cz Cc: Tom Lendacky thomas.lendacky@amd.com Cc: Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com Cc: Andrea Arcangeli aarcange@redhat.com Cc: David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk Cc: Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com Cc: Dave Hansen dave.hansen@intel.com Cc: Casey Schaufler casey.schaufler@intel.com Cc: Asit Mallick asit.k.mallick@intel.com Cc: Arjan van de Ven arjan@linux.intel.com Cc: Jon Masters jcm@redhat.com Cc: Waiman Long longman9394@gmail.com Cc: Greg KH gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: Dave Stewart david.c.stewart@intel.com Cc: Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181125185003.593893901@linutronix.de [bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings ben@decadent.org.uk --- arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ struct thread_info { #define TIF_SIGPENDING 2 /* signal pending */ #define TIF_NEED_RESCHED 3 /* rescheduling necessary */ #define TIF_SINGLESTEP 4 /* reenable singlestep on user return*/ -#define TIF_SSBD 5 /* Reduced data speculation */ +#define TIF_SSBD 5 /* Speculative store bypass disable */ #define TIF_SYSCALL_EMU 6 /* syscall emulation active */ #define TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT 7 /* syscall auditing active */ #define TIF_SECCOMP 8 /* secure computing */