This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/kaiser: Reenable PARAVIRT
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-reenable-paravirt.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 14:19:49 +0100
Subject: x86/kaiser: Reenable PARAVIRT
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Now that the required bits have been addressed, reenable
PARAVIRT.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
security/Kconfig | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/security/Kconfig
+++ b/security/Kconfig
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ config SECURITY
config KAISER
bool "Remove the kernel mapping in user mode"
default y
- depends on X86_64 && SMP && !PARAVIRT
+ depends on X86_64 && SMP
help
This enforces a strict kernel and user space isolation, in order
to close hardware side channels on kernel address information.
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