This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

x86/cpu, x86/pti: Do not enable PTI on AMD processors

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: x86-cpu-x86-pti-do-not-enable-pti-on-amd-processors.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From 694d99d40972f12e59a3696effee8a376b79d7c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Tom Lendacky thomas.lendacky@amd.com Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2017 23:43:54 -0600 Subject: x86/cpu, x86/pti: Do not enable PTI on AMD processors

From: Tom Lendacky thomas.lendacky@amd.com

commit 694d99d40972f12e59a3696effee8a376b79d7c8 upstream.

AMD processors are not subject to the types of attacks that the kernel page table isolation feature protects against. The AMD microarchitecture does not allow memory references, including speculative references, that access higher privileged data when running in a lesser privileged mode when that access would result in a page fault.

Disable page table isolation by default on AMD processors by not setting the X86_BUG_CPU_INSECURE feature, which controls whether X86_FEATURE_PTI is set.

Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky thomas.lendacky@amd.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de Cc: Dave Hansen dave.hansen@linux.intel.com Cc: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171227054354.20369.94587.stgit@tlendack-t1.amdof... Cc: Nick Lowe nick.lowe@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c @@ -883,8 +883,8 @@ 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_MELTDOWN); + if (c->x86_vendor != X86_VENDOR_AMD) + setup_force_cpu_bug(X86_BUG_CPU_MELTDOWN);

setup_force_cpu_bug(X86_BUG_SPECTRE_V1); setup_force_cpu_bug(X86_BUG_SPECTRE_V2);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from thomas.lendacky@amd.com are

queue-4.9/x86-retpoline-fill-rsb-on-context-switch-for-affected-cpus.patch queue-4.9/x86-retpoline-add-lfence-to-the-retpoline-rsb-filling-rsb-macros.patch queue-4.9/x86-cpu-x86-pti-do-not-enable-pti-on-amd-processors.patch