On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 08:19:27PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 10:12:22AM -0700, Eduardo Valentin wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 03:32:03PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > 4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me
> > > know.
> > >
> > > ------------------
> > >
> > > From: Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com>
> > >
> > > commit f7c90c2aa4004808dff777ba6ae2c7294dd06851 upstream.
> > >
> > > In some cases 32-bit PAE PV guests still write PTEs directly instead of
> > > using hypercalls. This is especially bad when clearing a PTE as this is
> > > done via 32-bit writes which will produce intermediate L1TF attackable
> > > PTEs.
> > >
> > > Change the code to use hypercalls instead.
> > >
> >
> > Good that we got this in. Should we also take this one:
> > b2d7a075a1cc ("x86/pae: use 64 bit atomic xchg function in
> > native_ptep_get_and_clear")
> >
> > Which is under the line of the same issue?
>
> It's also in this patch series, the very next one in fact :)
Cool! Missed that. Sorry for the noise.
Thanks for including the patches!
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
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All the best,
Eduardo Valentin
