[tip:x86/pti] x86/tlb: Drop the _GPL from the cpu_tlbstate export

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Commit-ID:  1e5476815fd7f98b888e01a0f9522b63085f96c9
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/1e5476815fd7f98b888e01a0f9522b63085f96c9
Author:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 22:19:04 +0100
Committer:  Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 00:39:58 +0100

x86/tlb: Drop the _GPL from the cpu_tlbstate export

The recent changes for PTI touch cpu_tlbstate from various tlb_flush
inlines. cpu_tlbstate is exported as GPL symbol, so this causes a
regression when building out of tree drivers for certain graphics cards.

Aside of that the export was wrong since it was introduced as it should
have been EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL_GPL().

Use the correct PER_CPU export and drop the _GPL to restore the previous
state which allows users to utilize the cards they payed for.

As always I'm really thrilled to make this kind of change to support the
#friends (or however the hot hashtag of today is spelled) from that closet
sauce graphics corp.

Fixes: 1e02ce4cccdc ("x86: Store a per-cpu shadow copy of CR4")
Fixes: 6fd166aae78c ("x86/mm: Use/Fix PCID to optimize user/kernel switches")
Reported-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
 arch/x86/mm/init.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init.c b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
index 80259ad..6b462a4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
@@ -870,7 +870,7 @@ __visible DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(struct tlb_state, cpu_tlbstate) = {
 	.next_asid = 1,
 	.cr4 = ~0UL,	/* fail hard if we screw up cr4 shadow initialization */
 };
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpu_tlbstate);
+EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(cpu_tlbstate);
 
 void update_cache_mode_entry(unsigned entry, enum page_cache_mode cache)
 {
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