Patch "x86/cpufeatures: Add AMD feature bits for Speculation Control" 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

x86/cpufeatures: Add AMD feature bits for Speculation Control

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:
x86cpufeatures_Add_AMD_feature_bits_for_Speculation_Control.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.

Subject: x86/cpufeatures: Add AMD feature bits for Speculation Control
From: David Woodhouse [email protected]
Date: Thu Jan 25 16:14:11 2018 +0000

From: David Woodhouse [email protected]

commit 5d10cbc91d9eb5537998b65608441b592eec65e7

AMD exposes the PRED_CMD/SPEC_CTRL MSRs slightly differently to Intel. See http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

---
 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

@@ -269,6 +269,9 @@
 #define X86_FEATURE_CLZERO		(13*32+ 0) /* CLZERO instruction */
 #define X86_FEATURE_IRPERF		(13*32+ 1) /* Instructions Retired Count */
 #define X86_FEATURE_XSAVEERPTR		(13*32+ 2) /* Always save/restore FP error pointers */
+#define X86_FEATURE_AMD_PRED_CMD	(13*32+12) /* Prediction Command MSR (AMD) */
+#define X86_FEATURE_AMD_SPEC_CTRL	(13*32+14) /* Speculation Control MSR only (AMD) */
+#define X86_FEATURE_AMD_STIBP		(13*32+15) /* Single Thread Indirect Branch Predictors (AMD) */
 
 /* Thermal and Power Management Leaf, CPUID level 0x00000006 (EAX), word 14 */
 #define X86_FEATURE_DTHERM		(14*32+ 0) /* Digital Thermal Sensor */

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

queue-4.14/x86pti_Do_not_enable_PTI_on_CPUs_which_are_not_vulnerable_to_Meltdown.patch queue-4.14/x86cpufeature_Blacklist_SPEC_CTRLPRED_CMD_on_early_Spectre_v2_microcodes.patch queue-4.14/x86cpufeatures_Add_Intel_feature_bits_for_Speculation_Control.patch queue-4.14/KVM_VMX_Make_indirect_call_speculation_safe.patch queue-4.14/x86msr_Add_definitions_for_new_speculation_control_MSRs.patch queue-4.14/x86cpufeatures_Add_CPUID_7_EDX_CPUID_leaf.patch queue-4.14/x86retpoline_Remove_the_esprsp_thunk.patch queue-4.14/x86cpufeatures_Add_AMD_feature_bits_for_Speculation_Control.patch queue-4.14/x86speculation_Add_basic_IBPB_(Indirect_Branch_Prediction_Barrier)_support.patch queue-4.14/x86speculation_Simplify_indirect_branch_prediction_barrier().patch queue-4.14/KVM_x86_Make_indirect_calls_in_emulator_speculation_safe.patch queue-4.14/x86retpoline_Simplify_vmexit_fill_RSB().patch queue-4.14/x86cpufeatures_Clean_up_Spectre_v2_related_CPUID_flags.patch