The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 4.18-stable tree.
I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at
Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst.
I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to
<stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> and let me know why this patch should be
applied. Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be
seen again.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>From d806afa495e2e2a1a726e26c5e44f27818e804c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yi Wang <wang.yi59@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 13:42:39 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] x86/kvm/vmx: Fix coding style in vmx_setup_l1d_flush()
Substitute spaces with tab. No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Yi Wang <wang.yi59@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jiang Biao <jiang.biao2@xxxxxxxxxx>
Message-Id: <1534398159-48509-1-git-send-email-wang.yi59@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # L1TF
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index 1519f030fd73..31e90e83fdd6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -219,15 +219,15 @@ static int vmx_setup_l1d_flush(enum vmx_l1d_flush_state l1tf)
return 0;
}
- if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_ARCH_CAPABILITIES)) {
- u64 msr;
-
- rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES, msr);
- if (msr & ARCH_CAP_SKIP_VMENTRY_L1DFLUSH) {
- l1tf_vmx_mitigation = VMENTER_L1D_FLUSH_NOT_REQUIRED;
- return 0;
- }
- }
+ if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_ARCH_CAPABILITIES)) {
+ u64 msr;
+
+ rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES, msr);
+ if (msr & ARCH_CAP_SKIP_VMENTRY_L1DFLUSH) {
+ l1tf_vmx_mitigation = VMENTER_L1D_FLUSH_NOT_REQUIRED;
+ return 0;
+ }
+ }
/* If set to auto use the default l1tf mitigation method */
if (l1tf == VMENTER_L1D_FLUSH_AUTO) {
