Patch "x86/spectre: Report get_user mitigation for spectre_v1" 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/spectre: Report get_user mitigation for spectre_v1

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:
x86spectre_Report_get_user_mitigation_for_spectre_v1.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: x86/spectre: Report get_user mitigation for spectre_v1
From: Dan Williams [email protected]
Date: Mon Jan 29 17:03:21 2018 -0800

From: Dan Williams [email protected]

commit edfbae53dab8348fca778531be9f4855d2ca0360

Reflect the presence of get_user(), __get_user(), and 'syscall' protections in sysfs. The expectation is that new and better tooling will allow the kernel to grow more usages of array_index_nospec(), for now, only claim mitigation for __user pointer de-references.

---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ ssize_t cpu_show_spectre_v1(struct devic
 {
 	if (!boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_SPECTRE_V1))
 		return sprintf(buf, "Not affected\n");
-	return sprintf(buf, "Vulnerable\n");
+	return sprintf(buf, "Mitigation: __user pointer sanitization\n");
 }
 
 ssize_t cpu_show_spectre_v2(struct device *dev,

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

queue-4.15/x86spectre_Report_get_user_mitigation_for_spectre_v1.patch