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x86/bugs: Whitelist allowed SPEC_CTRL MSR values
authorKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Thu, 26 Apr 2018 02:04:23 +0000 (22:04 -0400)
committerStefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Mon, 14 May 2018 10:08:46 +0000 (12:08 +0200)
commitca6704cf0b270166c014e18ba76d8c4c7283aaa5
tree3081899a71ba4c75fe93b09803d77a2f2024fb3f
parent2b83aba8ce5edc2f26681b3bdc64d17b14e0f69b
x86/bugs: Whitelist allowed SPEC_CTRL MSR values

Intel and AMD SPEC_CTRL (0x48) MSR semantics may differ in the
future (or in fact use different MSRs for the same functionality).

As such a run-time mechanism is required to whitelist the appropriate MSR
values.

[ tglx: Made the variable __ro_after_init ]

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CVE-2018-3639 (x86)

Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c