[PATCH 5.18 00/11] 5.18.5-rc1 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.18.5 release.
There are 11 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
let me know.

Responses should be made by Thu, 16 Jun 2022 18:37:02 +0000.
Anything received after that time might be too late.

The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
	https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.18.5-rc1.gz
or in the git tree and branch at:
	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.18.y
and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Linux 5.18.5-rc1

Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
    x86/speculation/mmio: Print SMT warning

Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    KVM: x86/speculation: Disable Fill buffer clear within guests

Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    x86/speculation/mmio: Reuse SRBDS mitigation for SBDS

Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    x86/speculation/srbds: Update SRBDS mitigation selection

Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    x86/speculation/mmio: Add sysfs reporting for Processor MMIO Stale Data

Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    x86/speculation/mmio: Enable CPU Fill buffer clearing on idle

Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    x86/bugs: Group MDS, TAA & Processor MMIO Stale Data mitigations

Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    x86/speculation/mmio: Add mitigation for Processor MMIO Stale Data

Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    x86/speculation: Add a common function for MD_CLEAR mitigation update

Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    x86/speculation/mmio: Enumerate Processor MMIO Stale Data bug

Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Documentation: Add documentation for Processor MMIO Stale Data


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Diffstat:

 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu |   1 +
 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/index.rst        |   1 +
 .../hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst          | 246 +++++++++++++++++++++
 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt    |  36 +++
 Makefile                                           |   4 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h                 |   1 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h                   |  25 +++
 arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h               |   2 +
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c                         | 235 +++++++++++++++++---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c                       |  52 ++++-
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c                             |  72 ++++++
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h                             |   2 +
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                                 |   3 +
 drivers/base/cpu.c                                 |   8 +
 include/linux/cpu.h                                |   3 +
 tools/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h           |   1 +
 tools/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h             |  25 +++
 17 files changed, 676 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)