ACK: [SRU OEM-5.17 00/11] MMIO Stale Data mitigations

[Ian May]

LGTM

Acked-by: Ian May <ian.may at canonical.com>

On 2022-06-15 09:13:25 , Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> [Impact]
> MMIO operations may lead to stale data to be present in processor buffers,
> which may be used for information disclosure.
> 
> [Mitigation]
> Flush processor buffers before VMENTER for guests that have a device assigned.
> 
> Josh Poimboeuf (1):
>   x86/speculation/mmio: Print SMT warning
> 
> Pawan Gupta (10):
>   Documentation: Add documentation for Processor MMIO Stale Data
>   x86/speculation/mmio: Enumerate Processor MMIO Stale Data bug
>   x86/speculation: Add a common function for MD_CLEAR mitigation update
>   x86/speculation/mmio: Add mitigation for Processor MMIO Stale Data
>   x86/bugs: Group MDS, TAA & Processor MMIO Stale Data mitigations
>   x86/speculation/mmio: Enable CPU Fill buffer clearing on idle
>   x86/speculation/mmio: Add sysfs reporting for Processor MMIO Stale
>     Data
>   x86/speculation/srbds: Update SRBDS mitigation selection
>   x86/speculation/mmio: Reuse SRBDS mitigation for SBDS
>   KVM: x86/speculation: Disable Fill buffer clear within guests
> 
>  .../ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu      |   1 +
>  Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/index.rst   |   1 +
>  .../hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst     | 246 ++++++++++++++++++
>  .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt         |  36 +++
>  arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h            |   1 +
>  arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h              |  25 ++
>  arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h          |   2 +
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c                    | 235 ++++++++++++++---
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c                  |  52 +++-
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c                        |  72 +++++
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h                        |   2 +
>  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                            |   3 +
>  drivers/base/cpu.c                            |   8 +
>  include/linux/cpu.h                           |   3 +
>  tools/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h      |   1 +
>  tools/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h        |  25 ++
>  16 files changed, 674 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst
> 
> -- 
> 2.34.1
> 
> 
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