[MODERATED] Re: L!TF Bulletin #4: The state of the horrors

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 05:08:35PM +0200, speck for Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> The repository has been updated with the following changes since bulletin #3:
> 
>   - Online sibling threads when SMT control is switched from off to on
> 
>   - Expose the VMX mitigation state properly in the l1tf vulnerability file
> 
>   - Fix EPT off handling
> 
>   - Make the kvm L1D flush parameter runtime controllable
> 
>   - Add the 'l1tf' kernel command line option
> 
>   - Add documentation about the whole mess
> 
> The master branch is still based on 4.18-rc1 and merges almost cleanly into
> 4.18-rc4+ with a very trivial conflict. It's not going to be rebased
> because the commit SHA1s are used in the stable branches and are also
> already used in distro backports.
> 
> The stable branches linux-4.14.y, linux-4.16.y and linux-4.17.y have been
> rebased to the latest stable versions. David Woodhouse said he's looking
> into updating the linux-4.9.y stable branch in the next days.
> 
> Git bundle against v4.18-rc1 is attached.
> 
> Thanks everyone involved for patches, testing, review and entertaining
> discussions!

You may also want to backport 

git cherry-pick 84676c1f21e8
git cherry-pick adbe552349f2d

As in the stable trees. The reason being that with 'nosmt' the megasas controller
goes bonky and stops working.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	tglx