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From 89c4aa9839e314a3ed45b377c8fb9a3b3fd78147 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2019 22:51:40 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] target/i386: Export TAA_NO bit to guests

RH-Author: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Message-id: <20191203225141.501191-2-ehabkost@redhat.com>
Patchwork-id: 92842
O-Subject: [RHEL-8.1.0 qemu-kvm PATCH 1/2] target/i386: Export TAA_NO bit to guests
Bugzilla: 1771970
RH-Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
RH-Acked-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
RH-Acked-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>

From: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>

TSX Async Abort (TAA) is a side channel attack on internal buffers in
some Intel processors similar to Microachitectural Data Sampling (MDS).

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

Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit 7fac38635e1cc5ebae34eb6530da1009bd5808e4)
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Danilo C. L. de Paula <ddepaula@redhat.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 c8f50a7..7baa5d2 100644
--- a/target/i386/cpu.c
+++ b/target/i386/cpu.c
@@ -1148,7 +1148,7 @@ 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,
-- 
1.8.3.1