* Greg KH <g...@kroah.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 11:27:13AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >
> > The intel_bts driver does not use the 'normal' BTS buffer we allocated
> > space for in the cpu_entry_area but instead uses the memory allocated
> > for the perf AUX buffer.
> >
> > This obviously comes apart when using PTI because then the kernel
> > mapping; which includes that AUX buffer memory; disappears.
> >
> > For now disable this driver when PTI is enabled, we'll try and sort
> > something out later.
> >
> > Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shish...@linux.intel.com>
> > Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.wea...@maine.edu>
> > Reported-by: Robert Święcki <rob...@swiecki.net>
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org>
>
> Can you add a:
> Cc: stable <sta...@vger.kernel.org>
> please?
Note that these fixes are all going into tip:x86/pti, which is still a
backporting
friendly linear set of commits that should all be backported.
So once 99a9dc98ba52 goes upstream, all of v4.14..99a9dc98ba52 the remaining
bits
can go to -stable as well.
Will keep you updated about the latest status periodically, right now the
latest
that is already upstream is:
de791821c295: x86/pti: Rename BUG_CPU_INSECURE to BUG_CPU_MELTDOWN
i.e. all 194 commits in the v4.14..de791821c295 range should be queued up for
-stable. (And most of them already are.)
There are 28 new commits in tip:x86/pti that will (hopefully) go upstream later
today.
Thanks,
Ingo
