ACK: [SRU Focal 0/3] CVE-2022-27672

[Cengiz Can]

On 23-06-21 17:22:40, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> [Impact]
> A VM may force the CPU to go to idle and when it gets back from idle, it
> could leverage the RSB from a sibling thread to mount a speculative
> execution attack.
> 
> [Backport]
> Simple conflicts and the placement of setting mitigate_smt_rsb.
> 
> [Potential regression]
> It would affect VMs, specially when dealing with idleness.
> 
> Tom Lendacky (3):
>   x86/speculation: Identify processors vulnerable to SMT RSB predictions
>   KVM: x86: Mitigate the cross-thread return address predictions bug
>   Documentation/hw-vuln: Add documentation for Cross-Thread Return
>     Predictions

Acked-by: Cengiz Can <cengiz.can at canonical.com>

> 
>  .../admin-guide/hw-vuln/cross-thread-rsb.rst  | 92 +++++++++++++++++++
>  Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/index.rst   |  1 +
>  arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h            |  1 +
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c                  |  9 +-
>  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                            | 44 ++++++---
>  5 files changed, 134 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/cross-thread-rsb.rst
> 
> -- 
> 2.34.1
> 
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