Patch "sysfs/cpu: Add vulnerability folder" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

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

sysfs/cpu: Add vulnerability folder

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
sysfs-cpu-add-vulnerability-folder.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2018 22:48:00 +0100
Subject: sysfs/cpu: Add vulnerability folder

From: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>

commit 87590ce6e373d1a5401f6539f0c59ef92dd924a9 upstream.

As the meltdown/spectre problem affects several CPU architectures, it makes sense to have common way to express whether a system is affected by a particular vulnerability or not. If affected the way to express the mitigation should be common as well.

Create /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities folder and files for meltdown, spectre_v1 and spectre_v2.

Allow architectures to override the show function.

---
 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu |   16 +++++++
 drivers/base/Kconfig                               |    3 +
 drivers/base/cpu.c                                 |   48 +++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/cpu.h                                |    7 +++
 4 files changed, 74 insertions(+)

@@ -373,3 +373,19 @@ Contact:	Linux kernel mailing list <linu
 Description:	information about CPUs heterogeneity.
 
 		cpu_capacity: capacity of cpu#.
+
+What:		/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities
+		/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/meltdown
+		/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v1
+		/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2
+Date:		Januar 2018
+Contact:	Linux kernel mailing list <[email protected]>
+Description:	Information about CPU vulnerabilities
+
+		The files are named after the code names of CPU
+		vulnerabilities. The output of those files reflects the
+		state of the CPUs in the system. Possible output values:
+
+		"Not affected"	  CPU is not affected by the vulnerability
+		"Vulnerable"	  CPU is affected and no mitigation in effect
+		"Mitigation: $M"  CPU is affetcted and mitigation $M is in effect

@@ -236,6 +236,9 @@ config GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES
 config GENERIC_CPU_AUTOPROBE
 	bool
 
+config GENERIC_CPU_VULNERABILITIES
+	bool
+
 config SOC_BUS
 	bool
 	select GLOB

@@ -47,6 +47,13 @@ extern void cpu_remove_dev_attr(struct d
 extern int cpu_add_dev_attr_group(struct attribute_group *attrs);
 extern void cpu_remove_dev_attr_group(struct attribute_group *attrs);
 
+extern ssize_t cpu_show_meltdown(struct device *dev,
+				 struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf);
+extern ssize_t cpu_show_spectre_v1(struct device *dev,
+				   struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf);
+extern ssize_t cpu_show_spectre_v2(struct device *dev,
+				   struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf);
+
 extern __printf(4, 5)
 struct device *cpu_device_create(struct device *parent, void *drvdata,
 				 const struct attribute_group **groups,

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.14/x86-pti-unbreak-efi-old_memmap.patch queue-4.14/x86-cpufeatures-add-x86_bug_spectre_v.patch queue-4.14/x86-microcode-intel-extend-bdw-late-loading-with-a-revision-check.patch queue-4.14/membarrier-disable-preemption-when-calling-smp_call_function_many.patch queue-4.14/x86-documentation-add-pti-description.patch queue-4.14/x86-acpi-handle-sci-interrupts-above-legacy-space-gracefully.patch queue-4.14/sysfs-cpu-add-vulnerability-folder.patch queue-4.14/x86-acpi-reduce-code-duplication-in-mp_override_legacy_irq.patch queue-4.14/kdump-write-correct-address-of-mem_section-into-vmcoreinfo.patch