This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/kaiser: Check boottime cmdline params
to the 4.4-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-kaiser-check-boottime-cmdline-params.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Wed Jan 3 18:58:12 CET 2018
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 14:19:48 +0100
Subject: x86/kaiser: Check boottime cmdline params
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
AMD (and possibly other vendors) are not affected by the leak
KAISER is protecting against.
Keep the "nopti" for traditional reasons and add pti=<on|off|auto>
like upstream.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 +++
arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
2 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3056,6 +3056,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes
pt. [PARIDE]
See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
+ pti= [X86_64]
+ Control KAISER user/kernel address space isolation:
+ on - enable
+ off - disable
+ auto - default setting
+
pty.legacy_count=
[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
default number.
--- a/arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
#include <asm/pgtable.h>
#include <asm/pgalloc.h>
#include <asm/desc.h>
+#include <asm/cmdline.h>
int kaiser_enabled __read_mostly = 1;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kaiser_enabled); /* for inlined TLB flush functions */
@@ -264,6 +265,43 @@ static void __init kaiser_init_all_pgds(
WARN_ON(__ret); \
} while (0)
+void __init kaiser_check_boottime_disable(void)
+{
+ bool enable = true;
+ char arg[5];
+ int ret;
+
+ ret = cmdline_find_option(boot_command_line, "pti", arg, sizeof(arg));
+ if (ret > 0) {
+ if (!strncmp(arg, "on", 2))
+ goto enable;
+
+ if (!strncmp(arg, "off", 3))
+ goto disable;
+
+ if (!strncmp(arg, "auto", 4))
+ goto skip;
+ }
+
+ if (cmdline_find_option_bool(boot_command_line, "nopti"))
+ goto disable;
+
+skip:
+ if (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_AMD)
+ goto disable;
+
+enable:
+ if (enable)
+ setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_KAISER);
+
+ return;
+
+disable:
+ pr_info("Kernel/User page tables isolation: disabled\n");
+ kaiser_enabled = 0;
+ setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_KAISER);
+}
+
/*
* If anything in here fails, we will likely die on one of the
* first kernel->user transitions and init will die. But, we
@@ -275,12 +313,10 @@ void __init kaiser_init(void)
{
int cpu;
- if (!kaiser_enabled) {
- setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_KAISER);
- return;
- }
+ kaiser_check_boottime_disable();
- setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_KAISER);
+ if (!kaiser_enabled)
+ return;
kaiser_init_all_pgds();
@@ -424,16 +460,3 @@ void kaiser_flush_tlb_on_return_to_user(
X86_CR3_PCID_USER_FLUSH | KAISER_SHADOW_PGD_OFFSET);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kaiser_flush_tlb_on_return_to_user);
-
-static int __init x86_nokaiser_setup(char *s)
-{
- /* nopti doesn't accept parameters */
- if (s)
- return -EINVAL;
-
- kaiser_enabled = 0;
- pr_info("Kernel/User page tables isolation: disabled\n");
-
- return 0;
-}
-early_param("nopti", x86_nokaiser_setup);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bp@xxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/x86-paravirt-dont-patch-flush_tlb_single.patch
queue-4.4/x86-kaiser-reenable-paravirt.patch
queue-4.4/x86-kaiser-rename-and-simplify-x86_feature_kaiser-handling.patch
queue-4.4/x86-kaiser-check-boottime-cmdline-params.patch
queue-4.4/x86-kaiser-move-feature-detection-up.patch