Patch "x86/speculation: Update Speculation Control microcode blacklist" has been added to the 4.15-stable tree

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

x86/speculation: Update Speculation Control microcode blacklist

to the 4.15-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-speculation-update-speculation-control-microcode-blacklist.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.15 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: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 23:39:22 +0000
Subject: x86/speculation: Update Speculation Control microcode blacklist

From: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>

commit 1751342095f0d2b36fa8114d8e12c5688c455ac4 upstream.

Intel have retroactively blessed the 0xc2 microcode on Skylake mobile and desktop parts, and the Gemini Lake 0x22 microcode is apparently fine too. We blacklisted the latter purely because it was present with all the other problematic ones in the 2018-01-08 release, but now it's explicitly listed as OK.

We still list 0x84 for the various Kaby Lake / Coffee Lake parts, as that appeared in one version of the blacklist and then reverted to 0x80 again. We can change it if 0x84 is actually announced to be safe.

---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c |    4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

@@ -123,8 +123,6 @@ static const struct sku_microcode spectr
 	{ INTEL_FAM6_KABYLAKE_MOBILE,	0x09,	0x84 },
 	{ INTEL_FAM6_SKYLAKE_X,		0x03,	0x0100013e },
 	{ INTEL_FAM6_SKYLAKE_X,		0x04,	0x0200003c },
-	{ INTEL_FAM6_SKYLAKE_MOBILE,	0x03,	0xc2 },
-	{ INTEL_FAM6_SKYLAKE_DESKTOP,	0x03,	0xc2 },
 	{ INTEL_FAM6_BROADWELL_CORE,	0x04,	0x28 },
 	{ INTEL_FAM6_BROADWELL_GT3E,	0x01,	0x1b },
 	{ INTEL_FAM6_BROADWELL_XEON_D,	0x02,	0x14 },

@@ -136,8 +134,6 @@ static const struct sku_microcode spectr
 	{ INTEL_FAM6_HASWELL_X,		0x02,	0x3b },
 	{ INTEL_FAM6_HASWELL_X,		0x04,	0x10 },
 	{ INTEL_FAM6_IVYBRIDGE_X,	0x04,	0x42a },
-	/* Updated in the 20180108 release; blacklist until we know otherwise */
-	{ INTEL_FAM6_ATOM_GEMINI_LAKE,	0x01,	0x22 },
 	/* Observed in the wild */
 	{ INTEL_FAM6_SANDYBRIDGE_X,	0x06,	0x61b },
 	{ INTEL_FAM6_SANDYBRIDGE_X,	0x07,	0x712 },

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

queue-4.15/kvm-nvmx-set-the-cpu_based_use_msr_bitmaps-if-we-have-a-valid-l02-msr-bitmap.patch queue-4.15/x86-nvmx-properly-set-spec_ctrl-and-pred_cmd-before-merging-msrs.patch queue-4.15/x86-speculation-update-speculation-control-microcode-blacklist.patch queue-4.15/x86-speculation-correct-speculation-control-microcode-blacklist-again.patch queue-4.15/kvm-x86-reduce-retpoline-performance-impact-in-slot_handle_level_range-by-always-inlining-iterator-helper-methods.patch queue-4.15/x86-speculation-clean-up-various-spectre-related-details.patch queue-4.15/revert-x86-speculation-simplify-indirect_branch_prediction_barrier.patch