Patch "KVM: VMX: Make indirect call speculation safe" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

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

KVM: VMX: Make indirect call speculation safe

to the 4.9-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:
kvm-vmx-make-indirect-call-speculation-safe.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 <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 10:58:14 +0100
Subject: KVM: VMX: Make indirect call speculation safe

From: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>

(cherry picked from commit c940a3fb1e2e9b7d03228ab28f375fb5a47ff699)

Replace indirect call with CALL_NOSPEC.

---
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -8676,14 +8676,14 @@ static void vmx_handle_external_intr(str
 #endif
 			"pushf\n\t"
 			__ASM_SIZE(push) " $%c[cs]\n\t"
-			"call *%[entry]\n\t"
+			CALL_NOSPEC
 			:
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
 			[sp]"=&r"(tmp),
 #endif
 			"+r"(__sp)
 			:
-			[entry]"r"(entry),
+			THUNK_TARGET(entry),
 			[ss]"i"(__KERNEL_DS),
 			[cs]"i"(__KERNEL_CS)
 			);

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

queue-4.9/kvm-x86-add-ibpb-support.patch queue-4.9/x86-cpufeatures-add-intel-feature-bits-for-speculation-control.patch queue-4.9/x86-cpufeatures-add-cpuid_7_edx-cpuid-leaf.patch queue-4.9/kvm-x86-make-indirect-calls-in-emulator-speculation-safe.patch queue-4.9/x86-cpufeature-blacklist-spec_ctrl-pred_cmd-on-early-spectre-v2-microcodes.patch queue-4.9/x86-asm-fix-inline-asm-call-constraints-for-gcc-4.4.patch queue-4.9/kvm-vmx-make-indirect-call-speculation-safe.patch queue-4.9/x86-cpufeatures-add-amd-feature-bits-for-speculation-control.patch queue-4.9/x86-msr-add-definitions-for-new-speculation-control-msrs.patch queue-4.9/x86-pti-make-unpoison-of-pgd-for-trusted-boot-work-for-real.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-fix-intel_bts-perf-crashes.patch queue-4.9/x86-retpoline-remove-the-esp-rsp-thunk.patch queue-4.9/x86-pti-do-not-enable-pti-on-cpus-which-are-not-vulnerable-to-meltdown.patch