Patch "x86/msr: Add definitions for new speculation control MSRs" 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/msr: Add definitions for new speculation control MSRs

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-msr-add-definitions-for-new-speculation-control-msrs.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 16:14:12 +0000
Subject: x86/msr: Add definitions for new speculation control MSRs

From: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>

(cherry picked from commit 1e340c60d0dd3ae07b5bedc16a0469c14b9f3410)

Add MSR and bit definitions for SPEC_CTRL, PRED_CMD and ARCH_CAPABILITIES.

See Intel's 336996-Speculative-Execution-Side-Channel-Mitigations.pdf

---
 arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h |   12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

@@ -37,6 +37,13 @@
 #define EFER_FFXSR		(1<<_EFER_FFXSR)
 
 /* Intel MSRs. Some also available on other CPUs */
+#define MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL		0x00000048 /* Speculation Control */
+#define SPEC_CTRL_IBRS			(1 << 0)   /* Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation */
+#define SPEC_CTRL_STIBP			(1 << 1)   /* Single Thread Indirect Branch Predictors */
+
+#define MSR_IA32_PRED_CMD		0x00000049 /* Prediction Command */
+#define PRED_CMD_IBPB			(1 << 0)   /* Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier */
+
 #define MSR_IA32_PERFCTR0		0x000000c1
 #define MSR_IA32_PERFCTR1		0x000000c2
 #define MSR_FSB_FREQ			0x000000cd

@@ -50,6 +57,11 @@
 #define SNB_C3_AUTO_UNDEMOTE		(1UL << 28)
 
 #define MSR_MTRRcap			0x000000fe
+
+#define MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES	0x0000010a
+#define ARCH_CAP_RDCL_NO		(1 << 0)   /* Not susceptible to Meltdown */
+#define ARCH_CAP_IBRS_ALL		(1 << 1)   /* Enhanced IBRS support */
+
 #define MSR_IA32_BBL_CR_CTL		0x00000119
 #define MSR_IA32_BBL_CR_CTL3		0x0000011e
 

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