This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled arm64: Make use of ARCH_WORKAROUND_1 even when KVM is not enabled to the 5.9-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: arm64-make-use-of-arch_workaround_1-even-when-kvm-is-not-enabled.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From b11483ef5a502663732c6ca1b58d14ff9eedd6f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 17:11:08 +0100 Subject: arm64: Make use of ARCH_WORKAROUND_1 even when KVM is not enabled From: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx> commit b11483ef5a502663732c6ca1b58d14ff9eedd6f7 upstream. We seem to be pretending that we don't have any firmware mitigation when KVM is not compiled in, which is not quite expected. Bring back the mitigation in this case. Fixes: 4db61fef16a1 ("arm64: kvm: Modernize __smccc_workaround_1_smc_start annotations") Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c @@ -234,14 +234,17 @@ static int detect_harden_bp_fw(void) smccc_end = NULL; break; -#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KVM) case SMCCC_CONDUIT_SMC: cb = call_smc_arch_workaround_1; +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KVM) smccc_start = __smccc_workaround_1_smc; smccc_end = __smccc_workaround_1_smc + __SMCCC_WORKAROUND_1_SMC_SZ; - break; +#else + smccc_start = NULL; + smccc_end = NULL; #endif + break; default: return -1; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from maz@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.9/arm64-make-use-of-arch_workaround_1-even-when-kvm-is-not-enabled.patch