This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled x86/init: Fix cr4_init_shadow() on CR4-less machines to the 4.7-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: x86-init-fix-cr4_init_shadow-on-cr4-less-machines.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From e1bfc11c5a6f40222a698a818dc269113245820e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 12:34:14 -0700 Subject: x86/init: Fix cr4_init_shadow() on CR4-less machines From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> commit e1bfc11c5a6f40222a698a818dc269113245820e upstream. cr4_init_shadow() will panic on 486-like machines without CR4. Fix it using __read_cr4_safe(). Reported-by: david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 1e02ce4cccdc ("x86: Store a per-cpu shadow copy of CR4") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/43a20f81fb504013bf613913dc25574b45336a61.1475091074.git.luto@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ DECLARE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(struct tl /* Initialize cr4 shadow for this CPU. */ static inline void cr4_init_shadow(void) { - this_cpu_write(cpu_tlbstate.cr4, __read_cr4()); + this_cpu_write(cpu_tlbstate.cr4, __read_cr4_safe()); } /* Set in this cpu's CR4. */ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from luto@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.7/x86-init-fix-cr4_init_shadow-on-cr4-less-machines.patch queue-4.7/x86-boot-initialize-fpu-and-x86_feature_always-even-if-we-don-t-have-cpuid.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html