This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
KPTI: Report when enabled
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:
kpti-report-when-enabled.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 keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx Wed Jan 3 20:49:35 2018
From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 10:43:32 -0800
Subject: KPTI: Report when enabled
To: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID: <20180103184332.GA18888@beast>
Content-Disposition: inline
From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Make sure dmesg reports when KPTI is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <linux/ftrace.h>
+#undef pr_fmt
+#define pr_fmt(fmt) "Kernel/User page tables isolation: " fmt
+
#include <asm/kaiser.h>
#include <asm/tlbflush.h> /* to verify its kaiser declarations */
#include <asm/pgtable.h>
@@ -293,7 +296,7 @@ enable:
return;
disable:
- pr_info("Kernel/User page tables isolation: disabled\n");
+ pr_info("disabled\n");
silent_disable:
kaiser_enabled = 0;
@@ -353,6 +356,8 @@ void __init kaiser_init(void)
kaiser_add_user_map_early(&debug_idt_table,
sizeof(gate_desc) * NR_VECTORS,
__PAGE_KERNEL);
+
+ pr_info("enabled\n");
}
/* Add a mapping to the shadow mapping, and synchronize the mappings */
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/kpti-rename-to-page_table_isolation.patch
queue-4.4/kpti-report-when-enabled.patch