Merge tag 'nativebhi' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 mitigations from Thomas Gleixner: "Mitigations for the native BHI hardware vulnerabilty: Branch History Injection (BHI) attacks may allow a malicious application to influence indirect branch prediction in kernel by poisoning the branch history. eIBRS isolates indirect branch targets in ring0. The BHB can still influence the choice of indirect branch predictor entry, and although branch predictor entries are isolated between modes when eIBRS is enabled, the BHB itself is not isolated between modes. Add mitigations against it either with the help of microcode or with software sequences for the affected CPUs" [ This also ends up enabling the full mitigation by default despite the system call hardening, because apparently there are other indirect calls that are still sufficiently reachable, and the 'auto' case just isn't hardened enough. We'll have some more inevitable tweaking in the future - Linus ] * tag 'nativebhi' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: KVM: x86: Add BHI_NO x86/bhi: Mitigate KVM by default x86/bhi: Add BHI mitigation knob x86/bhi: Enumerate Branch History Injection (BHI) bug x86/bhi: Define SPEC_CTRL_BHI_DIS_S x86/bhi: Add support for clearing branch history at syscall entry x86/syscall: Don't force use of indirect calls for system calls x86/bugs: Change commas to semicolons in 'spectre_v2' sysfs file
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