Patch "KVM: VMX: Make indirect call speculation safe" 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

KVM: VMX: Make indirect call speculation safe

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:
KVM_VMX_Make_indirect_call_speculation_safe.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.

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

From: Peter Zijlstra [email protected]

commit c940a3fb1e2e9b7d03228ab28f375fb5a47ff699

Replace indirect call with CALL_NOSPEC.

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

@@ -9129,14 +9129,14 @@ 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
 			ASM_CALL_CONSTRAINT
 			:
-			[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-4.15/x86pti_Do_not_enable_PTI_on_CPUs_which_are_not_vulnerable_to_Meltdown.patch queue-4.15/x86cpufeature_Blacklist_SPEC_CTRLPRED_CMD_on_early_Spectre_v2_microcodes.patch queue-4.15/x86cpufeatures_Add_Intel_feature_bits_for_Speculation_Control.patch queue-4.15/KVM_VMX_Make_indirect_call_speculation_safe.patch queue-4.15/x86msr_Add_definitions_for_new_speculation_control_MSRs.patch queue-4.15/x86alternative_Print_unadorned_pointers.patch queue-4.15/x86cpufeatures_Add_CPUID_7_EDX_CPUID_leaf.patch queue-4.15/x86bugs_Drop_one_mitigation_from_dmesg.patch queue-4.15/x86cpufeatures_Add_AMD_feature_bits_for_Speculation_Control.patch queue-4.15/x86speculation_Add_basic_IBPB_(Indirect_Branch_Prediction_Barrier)_support.patch queue-4.15/x86speculation_Simplify_indirect_branch_prediction_barrier().patch queue-4.15/x86nospec_Fix_header_guards_names.patch queue-4.15/KVM_x86_Make_indirect_calls_in_emulator_speculation_safe.patch queue-4.15/x86retpoline_Simplify_vmexit_fill_RSB().patch queue-4.15/x86cpufeatures_Clean_up_Spectre_v2_related_CPUID_flags.patch