Patch "x86/pti: Do not enable PTI on CPUs which are not vulnerable to Meltdown" 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

x86/pti: Do not enable PTI on CPUs which are not vulnerable to Meltdown

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:
x86-pti-do-not-enable-pti-on-cpus-which-are-not-vulnerable-to-meltdown.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: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 16:14:13 +0000
Subject: x86/pti: Do not enable PTI on CPUs which are not vulnerable to Meltdown

From: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>

(cherry picked from commit fec9434a12f38d3aeafeb75711b71d8a1fdef621)

Also, for CPUs which don't speculate at all, don't report that they're vulnerable to the Spectre variants either.

Leave the cpu_no_meltdown[] match table with just X86_VENDOR_AMD in it for now, even though that could be done with a simple comparison, on the assumption that we'll have more to add.

Based on suggestions from Dave Hansen and Alan Cox.

---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c |   48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@
 #include <asm/pat.h>
 #include <asm/microcode.h>
 #include <asm/microcode_intel.h>
+#include <asm/intel-family.h>
+#include <asm/cpu_device_id.h>
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC
 #include <asm/uv/uv.h>

@@ -838,6 +840,41 @@ static void identify_cpu_without_cpuid(s
 #endif
 }
 
+static const __initdata struct x86_cpu_id cpu_no_speculation[] = {
+	{ X86_VENDOR_INTEL,	6, INTEL_FAM6_ATOM_CEDARVIEW,	X86_FEATURE_ANY },
+	{ X86_VENDOR_INTEL,	6, INTEL_FAM6_ATOM_CLOVERVIEW,	X86_FEATURE_ANY },
+	{ X86_VENDOR_INTEL,	6, INTEL_FAM6_ATOM_LINCROFT,	X86_FEATURE_ANY },
+	{ X86_VENDOR_INTEL,	6, INTEL_FAM6_ATOM_PENWELL,	X86_FEATURE_ANY },
+	{ X86_VENDOR_INTEL,	6, INTEL_FAM6_ATOM_PINEVIEW,	X86_FEATURE_ANY },
+	{ X86_VENDOR_CENTAUR,	5 },
+	{ X86_VENDOR_INTEL,	5 },
+	{ X86_VENDOR_NSC,	5 },
+	{ X86_VENDOR_ANY,	4 },
+	{}
+};
+
+static const __initdata struct x86_cpu_id cpu_no_meltdown[] = {
+	{ X86_VENDOR_AMD },
+	{}
+};
+
+static bool __init cpu_vulnerable_to_meltdown(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
+{
+	u64 ia32_cap = 0;
+
+	if (x86_match_cpu(cpu_no_meltdown))
+		return false;
+
+	if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_ARCH_CAPABILITIES))
+		rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES, ia32_cap);
+
+	/* Rogue Data Cache Load? No! */
+	if (ia32_cap & ARCH_CAP_RDCL_NO)
+		return false;
+
+	return true;
+}
+
 /*
  * Do minimum CPU detection early.
  * Fields really needed: vendor, cpuid_level, family, model, mask,

@@ -884,11 +921,12 @@ static void __init early_identify_cpu(st
 
 	setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS);
 
-	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);
+	if (!x86_match_cpu(cpu_no_speculation)) {
+		if (cpu_vulnerable_to_meltdown(c))
+			setup_force_cpu_bug(X86_BUG_CPU_MELTDOWN);
+		setup_force_cpu_bug(X86_BUG_SPECTRE_V1);
+		setup_force_cpu_bug(X86_BUG_SPECTRE_V2);
+	}
 
 	fpu__init_system(c);
 

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

queue-4.9/kvm-vmx-introduce-alloc_loaded_vmcs.patch queue-4.9/kvm-nvmx-eliminate-vmcs02-pool.patch queue-4.9/kvm-vmx-allow-direct-access-to-msr_ia32_spec_ctrl.patch queue-4.9/kvm-x86-add-ibpb-support.patch queue-4.9/kvm-svm-allow-direct-access-to-msr_ia32_spec_ctrl.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/kvm-vmx-make-indirect-call-speculation-safe.patch queue-4.9/x86-cpufeatures-add-amd-feature-bits-for-speculation-control.patch queue-4.9/module-retpoline-warn-about-missing-retpoline-in-module.patch queue-4.9/kvm-nvmx-vmx_complete_nested_posted_interrupt-can-t-fail.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/kvm-vmx-make-msr-bitmaps-per-vcpu.patch queue-4.9/kvm-nvmx-mark-vmcs12-pages-dirty-on-l2-exit.patch queue-4.9/kvm-vmx-emulate-msr_ia32_arch_capabilities.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