BMC/Intel-BMC/linux.git/Documentation/admin-guide, branch dev-5.4

Merge tag 'v5.4.48' into dev-5.4

2020-06-24T07:38:01+00:00

This is the 5.4.48 stable release Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley

x86/speculation: Add Ivy Bridge to affected list

2020-06-10T18:24:58+00:00

commit 3798cc4d106e91382bfe016caa2edada27c2bb3f upstream Make the docs match the code. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/speculation: Add SRBDS vulnerability and mitigation documentation

2020-06-10T18:24:57+00:00

commit 7222a1b5b87417f22265c92deea76a6aecd0fb0f upstream Add documentation for the SRBDS vulnerability and its mitigation. [ bp: Massage. jpoimboe: sysfs table strings. ] Signed-off-by: Mark Gross Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Reviewed-by: Tony Luck Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/speculation: Add Special Register Buffer Data Sampling (SRBDS) mitigation

2020-06-10T18:24:57+00:00

commit 7e5b3c267d256822407a22fdce6afdf9cd13f9fb upstream SRBDS is an MDS-like speculative side channel that can leak bits from the random number generator (RNG) across cores and threads. New microcode serializes the processor access during the execution of RDRAND and RDSEED. This ensures that the shared buffer is overwritten before it is released for reuse. While it is present on all affected CPU models, the microcode mitigation is not needed on models that enumerate ARCH_CAPABILITIES[MDS_NO] in the cases where TSX is not supported or has been disabled with TSX_CTRL. The mitigation is activated by default on affected processors and it increases latency for RDRAND and RDSEED instructions. Among other effects this will reduce throughput from /dev/urandom. * Enable administrator to configure the mitigation off when desired using either mitigations=off or srbds=off. * Export vulnerability status via sysfs * Rename file-scoped macros to apply for non-whitelist table initializations. [ bp: Massage, - s/VULNBL_INTEL_STEPPING/VULNBL_INTEL_STEPPINGS/g, - do not read arch cap MSR a second time in tsx_fused_off() - just pass it in, - flip check in cpu_set_bug_bits() to save an indentation level, - reflow comments. jpoimboe: s/Mitigated/Mitigation/ in user-visible strings tglx: Dropped the fused off magic for now ] Signed-off-by: Mark Gross Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Tony Luck Reviewed-by: Pawan Gupta Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf Tested-by: Neelima Krishnan Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'v5.4.38' into dev-5.4

2020-05-05T13:38:14+00:00

This is the 5.4.38 stable release Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley

USB: hub: Revert commit bd0e6c9614b9 ("usb: hub: try old enumeration scheme first for high speed devices")

2020-04-29T14:33:14+00:00

commit 3155f4f40811c5d7e3c686215051acf504e05565 upstream. Commit bd0e6c9614b9 ("usb: hub: try old enumeration scheme first for high speed devices") changed the way the hub driver enumerates high-speed devices. Instead of using the "new" enumeration scheme first and switching to the "old" scheme if that doesn't work, we start with the "old" scheme. In theory this is better because the "old" scheme is slightly faster -- it involves resetting the device only once instead of twice. However, for a long time Windows used only the "new" scheme. Zeng Tao said that Windows 8 and later use the "old" scheme for high-speed devices, but apparently there are some devices that don't like it. William Bader reports that the Ricoh webcam built into his Sony Vaio laptop not only doesn't enumerate under the "old" scheme, it gets hung up so badly that it won't then enumerate under the "new" scheme! Only a cold reset will fix it. Therefore we will revert the commit and go back to trying the "new" scheme first for high-speed devices. Reported-and-tested-by: William Bader Ref: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207219 Signed-off-by: Alan Stern Fixes: bd0e6c9614b9 ("usb: hub: try old enumeration scheme first for high speed devices") CC: Zeng Tao CC: Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Pine.LNX.4.44L0.2004221611230.11262-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

docs: Fix path to MTD command line partition parser

2020-04-23T08:36:45+00:00

commit fb2511247dc4061fd122d0195838278a4a0b7b59 upstream. cmdlinepart.c has been moved to drivers/mtd/parsers/. Fixes: a3f12a35c91d ("mtd: parsers: Move CMDLINE parser") Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'v5.4.28' into dev-5.4

2020-03-30T04:14:24+00:00

This is the 5.4.28 stable release Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley

ACPI: watchdog: Allow disabling WDAT at boot

2020-03-21T07:11:47+00:00

[ Upstream commit 3f9e12e0df012c4a9a7fd7eb0d3ae69b459d6b2c ] In case the WDAT interface is broken, give the user an option to ignore it to let a native driver bind to the watchdog device instead. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare Acked-by: Mika Westerberg Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

Merge tag 'v5.4.16' into dev-5.4

2020-01-31T04:22:08+00:00

This is the 5.4.16 stable release Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley