This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.8.1 release. There are 5 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 Mar 15 04:28:11 PM UTC 2024. Anything received after that time might be too late.
The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git/p... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.8.y and the diffstat can be found below.
Thanks, Sasha
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Pawan Gupta (4): x86/mmio: Disable KVM mitigation when X86_FEATURE_CLEAR_CPU_BUF is set Documentation/hw-vuln: Add documentation for RFDS x86/rfds: Mitigate Register File Data Sampling (RFDS) KVM/x86: Export RFDS_NO and RFDS_CLEAR to guests
Sasha Levin (1): Linux 6.8.1-rc1
.../ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu | 1 + Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/index.rst | 1 + .../hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst | 104 ++++++++++++++++++ .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 21 ++++ Makefile | 4 +- arch/x86/Kconfig | 11 ++ arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 1 + arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h | 8 ++ arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 92 +++++++++++++++- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 38 ++++++- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 5 +- drivers/base/cpu.c | 3 + include/linux/cpu.h | 2 + 13 files changed, 280 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst
On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 12:30:14PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.8.1 release. There are 5 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.
Successfully compiled and installed the kernel on my computer (Acer Aspire E15, Intel Core i3 Haswell). No noticeable regressions.
Tested-by: Bagas Sanjaya bagasdotme@gmail.com
Works fine on my Arch Linux desktop with model name : AMD Ryzen 5 5600 6-Core Processor
Tested-by: Luna Jernberg droidbittin@gmail.com
Den tors 14 mars 2024 kl 09:22 skrev Bagas Sanjaya bagasdotme@gmail.com:
On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 12:30:14PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.8.1 release. There are 5 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.
Successfully compiled and installed the kernel on my computer (Acer Aspire E15, Intel Core i3 Haswell). No noticeable regressions.
Tested-by: Bagas Sanjaya bagasdotme@gmail.com
-- An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara
On 3/13/24 9:30 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.8.1 release. There are 5 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 Mar 15 04:28:11 PM UTC 2024. Anything received after that time might be too late.
The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git/p... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.8.y and the diffstat can be found below.
Thanks, Sasha
Built and booted successfully on RISC-V RV64 (HiFive Unmatched).
Tested-by: Ron Economos re@w6rz.net
On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 at 22:00, Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.8.1 release. There are 5 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 Mar 15 04:28:11 PM UTC 2024. Anything received after that time might be too late.
The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git/p... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.8.y and the diffstat can be found below.
Thanks, Sasha
Results from Linaro’s test farm. No regressions on arm64, arm, x86_64, and i386.
Tested-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing lkft@linaro.org
## Build * kernel: 6.8.1-rc1 * git: https://gitlab.com/Linaro/lkft/mirrors/stable/linux-stable-rc * git branch: linux-6.8.y * git commit: aad69864e4400284b2792c16361be9d38237348b * git describe: v6.8-rc7-266-gaad69864e440 * test details: https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-6.8.y/build/v6.8-rc...
## Test Regressions (compared to v6.8)
## Metric Regressions (compared to v6.8)
## Test Fixes (compared to v6.8)
## Metric Fixes (compared to v6.8)
## Test result summary total: 245920, pass: 214243, fail: 2828, skip: 28849, xfail: 0
## Build Summary * arc: 5 total, 5 passed, 0 failed * arm: 133 total, 129 passed, 4 failed * arm64: 41 total, 40 passed, 1 failed * i386: 33 total, 28 passed, 5 failed * mips: 26 total, 23 passed, 3 failed * parisc: 4 total, 4 passed, 0 failed * powerpc: 36 total, 28 passed, 8 failed * riscv: 18 total, 18 passed, 0 failed * s390: 13 total, 13 passed, 0 failed * sh: 10 total, 10 passed, 0 failed * sparc: 8 total, 8 passed, 0 failed * x86_64: 37 total, 33 passed, 4 failed
## Test suites summary * boot * kselftest-android * kselftest-arm64 * kselftest-breakpoints * kselftest-capabilities * kselftest-cgroup * kselftest-clone3 * kselftest-core * kselftest-cpu-hotplug * kselftest-cpufreq * kselftest-drivers-dma-buf * kselftest-efivarfs * kselftest-exec * kselftest-filesystems * kselftest-filesystems-binderfs * kselftest-filesystems-epoll * kselftest-firmware * kselftest-fpu * kselftest-ftrace * kselftest-futex * kselftest-gpio * kselftest-intel_pstate * kselftest-ipc * kselftest-ir * kselftest-kcmp * kselftest-kexec * kselftest-kvm * kselftest-lib * kselftest-livepatch * kselftest-membarrier * kselftest-memory-hotplug * kselftest-mincore * kselftest-mm * kselftest-mount * kselftest-mqueue * kselftest-net * kselftest-net-forwarding * kselftest-net-mptcp * kselftest-netfilter * kselftest-nsfs * kselftest-openat2 * kselftest-pid_namespace * kselftest-pidfd * kselftest-proc * kselftest-pstore * kselftest-ptrace * kselftest-rseq * kselftest-rtc * kselftest-seccomp * kselftest-sigaltstack * kselftest-size * kselftest-splice * kselftest-static_keys * kselftest-sync * kselftest-sysctl * kselftest-tc-testing * kselftest-timens * kselftest-timers * kselftest-tmpfs * kselftest-tpm2 * kselftest-user * kselftest-user_events * kselftest-vDSO * kselftest-watchdog * kselftest-x86 * kselftest-zram * kunit * kvm-unit-tests * libgpiod * log-parser-boot * log-parser-test * ltp-cap_bounds * ltp-commands * ltp-containers * ltp-controllers * ltp-cpuhotplug * ltp-crypto * ltp-cve * ltp-dio * ltp-fcntl-locktests * ltp-filecaps * ltp-fs * ltp-fs_bind * ltp-fs_perms_simple * ltp-hugetlb * ltp-io * ltp-ipc * ltp-math * ltp-mm * ltp-nptl * ltp-pty * ltp-sched * ltp-securebits * ltp-smoke * ltp-smoketest * ltp-syscalls * ltp-tracing * perf * rcutorture
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Hi Sasha,
On 3/13/24 09:30, Sasha Levin wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.8.1 release. There are 5 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 Mar 15 04:28:11 PM UTC 2024. Anything received after that time might be too late.
The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git/p... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.8.y and the diffstat can be found below.
Could you and Greg make sure you share the same CC list? I am usually copied by Greg on stable release candidates, but a whole lot people are not. This makes it easy to miss those.
Thanks! With that:
On ARCH_BRCMSTB using 32-bit and 64-bit ARM kernels, build tested on BMIPS_GENERIC:
Tested-by: Florian Fainelli florian.fainelli@broadcom.com
On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 02:24:28PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
Hi Sasha,
On 3/13/24 09:30, Sasha Levin wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.8.1 release. There are 5 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 Mar 15 04:28:11 PM UTC 2024. Anything received after that time might be too late.
The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git/p... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.8.y and the diffstat can be found below.
Could you and Greg make sure you share the same CC list? I am usually copied by Greg on stable release candidates, but a whole lot people are not. This makes it easy to miss those.
Yup, will do. I didn't need to do this for a few years so our scripts grew a bit out of sync.
On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 12:30:14PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.8.1 release. There are 5 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.
Tested-by: Mark Brown broonie@kernel.org
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