4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de
commit de791821c295cc61419a06fe5562288417d1bc58 upstream.
Use the name associated with the particular attack which needs page table isolation for mitigation.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Acked-by: David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk Cc: Alan Cox gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Cc: Jiri Koshina jikos@kernel.org Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Tim Chen tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com Cc: Andi Lutomirski luto@amacapital.net Cc: Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Paul Turner pjt@google.com Cc: Tom Lendacky thomas.lendacky@amd.com Cc: Greg KH gregkh@linux-foundation.org Cc: Dave Hansen dave.hansen@intel.com Cc: Kees Cook keescook@google.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1801051525300.1724@nanos Signed-off-by: Razvan Ghitulete rga@amazon.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h @@ -316,6 +316,6 @@ #define X86_BUG_SWAPGS_FENCE X86_BUG(11) /* SWAPGS without input dep on GS */ #define X86_BUG_MONITOR X86_BUG(12) /* IPI required to wake up remote CPU */ #define X86_BUG_AMD_E400 X86_BUG(13) /* CPU is among the affected by Erratum 400 */ -#define X86_BUG_CPU_INSECURE X86_BUG(14) /* CPU is insecure and needs kernel page table isolation */ +#define X86_BUG_CPU_MELTDOWN X86_BUG(14) /* CPU is affected by meltdown attack and needs kernel page table isolation */
#endif /* _ASM_X86_CPUFEATURES_H */ --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c @@ -884,7 +884,7 @@ static void __init early_identify_cpu(st setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS);
/* Assume for now that ALL x86 CPUs are insecure */ - setup_force_cpu_bug(X86_BUG_CPU_INSECURE); + setup_force_cpu_bug(X86_BUG_CPU_MELTDOWN);
fpu__init_system(c); }