File 0163-target-i386-Export-TAA_NO-bit-to-gu.patch of Package qemu-linux-user.13117

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File 0163-target-i386-Export-TAA_NO-bit-to-gu.patch of Package qemu-linux-user.13117

From bd6f30afec2d81ddae804f74a350df44b43b4e45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 09:27:46 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] target/i386: Export TAA_NO bit to guests

TSX Async Abort (TAA) is a side channel attack on internal buffers in
some Intel processors similar to Microachitectural Data Sampling (MDS).
In this issue certain loads may speculatively pass invalid data to
dependent operations when an asynchronous abort condition is pending in
a TSX transaction.

Some Intel processors use the ARCH_CAP_TAA_NO bit in the
IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES MSR to report that they are not vulnerable.
Make this available to guests.

Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
[BR: BSC#1152506 CVE-2019-11135]
Signed-off-by: Bruce Rogers <brogers@suse.com>
---
 target/i386/cpu.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/target/i386/cpu.c b/target/i386/cpu.c
index 3fb8175cf6..80cd357c89 100644
--- a/target/i386/cpu.c
+++ b/target/i386/cpu.c
@@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ static FeatureWordInfo feature_word_info[FEATURE_WORDS] = {
         .feat_names = {
             "rdctl-no", "ibrs-all", "rsba", "skip-l1dfl-vmentry",
             "ssb-no", "mds-no", NULL, NULL,
-            NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
+            "taa-no", NULL, NULL, NULL,
             NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
             NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
             NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,

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