[stable:PATCH v5.4.225 0/2] arm64: errata: Spectre-BHB fixes
Greg KH
greg at kroah.com
Sat Dec 3 05:32:39 PST 2022
On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 06:28:17PM +0000, James Morse wrote:
> Hello!
>
> The first patch fixes an issue reported by Sami, where linux panic()s
> when bringing secondary CPUs online. The problem was the Spectre
> workarounds trying to allocate a new slot for mitigating KVM when
> those pages are no longer writeable.
>
> While debugging that issue, I spotted the Spectre-BHB KVM mitigation was
> over-riding the Spectre-v2 KVM Mitigation. It's supposed to happen the
> other way round.
>
> The backports aren't the same as mainline because the spectre mitigation code
> was totally rewritten for v5.10, and prior to that the KVM infrastructure
> is very different.
All now queued up, thanks.
greg k-h
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