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Linus Torvalds 80eb5fea3c powerpc fixes for Spectre-RSB
We failed to activate the mitigation for Spectre-RSB (Return Stack
 Buffer, aka. ret2spec) on context switch, on CPUs prior to Power9
 DD2.3.
 
 That allows a process to poison the RSB (called Link Stack on Power
 CPUs) and possibly misdirect speculative execution of another process.
 If the victim process can be induced to execute a leak gadget then it
 may be possible to extract information from the victim via a side
 channel.
 
 The fix is to correctly activate the link stack flush mitigation on
 all CPUs that have any mitigation of Spectre v2 in userspace enabled.
 
 There's a second commit which adds a link stack flush in the KVM guest
 exit path. A leak via that path has not been demonstrated, but we
 believe it's at least theoretically possible.
 
 This is the fix for CVE-2019-18660.
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Merge tag 'powerpc-spectre-rsb' of powerpc-CVE-2019-18660.bundle

Pull powerpc Spectre-RSB fixes from Michael Ellerman:
 "We failed to activate the mitigation for Spectre-RSB (Return Stack
  Buffer, aka. ret2spec) on context switch, on CPUs prior to Power9
  DD2.3.

  That allows a process to poison the RSB (called Link Stack on Power
  CPUs) and possibly misdirect speculative execution of another process.
  If the victim process can be induced to execute a leak gadget then it
  may be possible to extract information from the victim via a side
  channel.

  The fix is to correctly activate the link stack flush mitigation on
  all CPUs that have any mitigation of Spectre v2 in userspace enabled.

  There's a second commit which adds a link stack flush in the KVM guest
  exit path. A leak via that path has not been demonstrated, but we
  believe it's at least theoretically possible.

  This is the fix for CVE-2019-18660"

* tag 'powerpc-spectre-rsb' of /home/torvalds/Downloads/powerpc-CVE-2019-18660.bundle:
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Flush link stack on guest exit to host kernel
  powerpc/book3s64: Fix link stack flush on context switch
2019-11-27 11:25:04 -08:00
arch powerpc fixes for Spectre-RSB 2019-11-27 11:25:04 -08:00
block for-5.5/disk-revalidate-20191122 2019-11-25 11:37:01 -08:00
certs PKCS#7: Refactor verify_pkcs7_signature() 2019-08-05 18:40:18 -04:00
crypto Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2019-11-25 19:49:58 -08:00
Documentation Driver core patches for 5.5-rc1 2019-11-27 11:06:20 -08:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.