This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled x86/mm/pti: Allow NX poison to be set in p4d/pgd to the 4.14-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-mm-pti-allow-nx-poison-to-be-set-in-p4d-pgd.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 1c4de1ff4fe50453b968579ee86fac3da80dd783 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 15:07:38 +0100 Subject: x86/mm/pti: Allow NX poison to be set in p4d/pgd From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 1c4de1ff4fe50453b968579ee86fac3da80dd783 upstream. With PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION the user portion of the kernel page tables is poisoned with the NX bit so if the entry code exits with the kernel page tables selected in CR3, userspace crashes. But doing so trips the p4d/pgd_bad() checks. Make sure it does not do that. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Cc: aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: daniel.gruss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: hughd@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: keescook@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h | 14 ++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h @@ -846,7 +846,12 @@ static inline pud_t *pud_offset(p4d_t *p static inline int p4d_bad(p4d_t p4d) { - return (p4d_flags(p4d) & ~(_KERNPG_TABLE | _PAGE_USER)) != 0; + unsigned long ignore_flags = _KERNPG_TABLE | _PAGE_USER; + + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION)) + ignore_flags |= _PAGE_NX; + + return (p4d_flags(p4d) & ~ignore_flags) != 0; } #endif /* CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS > 3 */ @@ -880,7 +885,12 @@ static inline p4d_t *p4d_offset(pgd_t *p static inline int pgd_bad(pgd_t pgd) { - return (pgd_flags(pgd) & ~_PAGE_USER) != _KERNPG_TABLE; + unsigned long ignore_flags = _PAGE_USER; + + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION)) + ignore_flags |= _PAGE_NX; + + return (pgd_flags(pgd) & ~ignore_flags) != _KERNPG_TABLE; } static inline int pgd_none(pgd_t pgd) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-allow-nx-poison-to-be-set-in-p4d-pgd.patch queue-4.14/x86-dumpstack-indicate-in-oops-whether-pti-is-configured-and-enabled.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-clarify-the-whole-asid-kernel-pcid-user-pcid-naming.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-abstract-switching-cr3.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-optimize-restore_cr3.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-force-entry-through-trampoline-when-pti-active.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-align-entry-text-section-to-pmd-boundary.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-64-make-a-full-pgd-entry-size-hole-in-the-memory-map.patch queue-4.14/x86-cpu_entry_area-add-debugstore-entries-to-cpu_entry_area.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-share-entry-text-pmd.patch queue-4.14/x86-ldt-make-the-ldt-mapping-ro.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-dump_pagetables-check-user-space-page-table-for-wx-pages.patch queue-4.14/x86-pti-map-the-vsyscall-page-if-needed.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-disable-global-pages-if-page_table_isolation-y.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-dump_pagetables-allow-dumping-current-pagetables.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-add-infrastructure-for-page-table-isolation.patch queue-4.14/x86-cpufeatures-add-x86_bug_cpu_insecure.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-use-fix-pcid-to-optimize-user-kernel-switches.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-use-invpcid-for-__native_flush_tlb_single.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-prepare-the-x86-entry-assembly-code-for-entry-exit-cr3-switching.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-allow-flushing-for-future-asid-switches.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-add-kconfig.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-add-mapping-helper-functions.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-map-espfix-into-user-space.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-share-cpu_entry_area-with-user-space-page-tables.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-add-functions-to-clone-kernel-pmds.patch queue-4.14/x86-pti-add-the-pti-cmdline-option-and-documentation.patch queue-4.14/x86-events-intel-ds-map-debug-buffers-in-cpu_entry_area.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-allocate-a-separate-user-pgd.patch queue-4.14/x86-pti-put-the-ldt-in-its-own-pgd-if-pti-is-on.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-populate-user-pgd.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-dump_pagetables-add-page-table-directory-to-the-debugfs-vfs-hierarchy.patch