UBUNTU: SAUCE: x86/KVM/VMX: Expose SPEC_CTRL Bit(2) to the guest
CVE-2018-3639 (x86) Expose the CPUID.7.EDX[31] bit to the guest, and also guard against various combinations of SPEC_CTRL MSR values. The handling of the MSR (to take into account the host value of SPEC_CTRL Bit(2)) is taken care of in patch: KVM/SVM/VMX/x86/spectre_v2: Support the combination of guest and host IBRS Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com> [juergh: Context adjustments.] Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <juergh@canonical.com>
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