This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled x86/speculation/mds: Mark mds_user_clear_cpu_buffers() __always_inline to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: x86-speculation-mds-mark-mds_user_clear_cpu_buffers-.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit b878817611c827dcf5e3f0ee455951d9a10310cf Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Mar 4 12:49:18 2020 +0100 x86/speculation/mds: Mark mds_user_clear_cpu_buffers() __always_inline [ Upstream commit a7ef9ba986b5fae9d80f8a7b31db0423687efe4e ] Prevent the compiler from uninlining and creating traceable/probable functions as this is invoked _after_ context tracking switched to CONTEXT_USER and rcu idle. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200505134340.902709267@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h index 041d2a04be1d8..270448b178a7a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h @@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ DECLARE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(mds_idle_clear); * combination with microcode which triggers a CPU buffer flush when the * instruction is executed. */ -static inline void mds_clear_cpu_buffers(void) +static __always_inline void mds_clear_cpu_buffers(void) { static const u16 ds = __KERNEL_DS; @@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ static inline void mds_clear_cpu_buffers(void) * * Clear CPU buffers if the corresponding static key is enabled */ -static inline void mds_user_clear_cpu_buffers(void) +static __always_inline void mds_user_clear_cpu_buffers(void) { if (static_branch_likely(&mds_user_clear)) mds_clear_cpu_buffers();