This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled vsyscall: Fix permissions for emulate mode with KAISER/PTI to the 4.9-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: vsyscall-fix-permissions-for-emulate-mode-with-kaiser-pti.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fri Jan 26 17:35:59 2018 From: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 16:23:02 +0000 Subject: vsyscall: Fix permissions for emulate mode with KAISER/PTI To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>, stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Message-ID: <20180126162302.ei4tmiltl73npmr6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> From: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> The backport of KAISER to 4.4 turned vsyscall emulate mode into native mode. Add a vsyscall_pgprot variable to hold the correct page protections, like Borislav and Hugh did for 3.2 and 3.18. Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c | 7 ++++--- arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h | 1 + arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c | 2 +- 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c @@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ static enum { EMULATE, NATIVE, NONE } vs #else EMULATE; #endif +unsigned long vsyscall_pgprot = __PAGE_KERNEL_VSYSCALL; static int __init vsyscall_setup(char *str) { @@ -336,11 +337,11 @@ void __init map_vsyscall(void) extern char __vsyscall_page; unsigned long physaddr_vsyscall = __pa_symbol(&__vsyscall_page); + if (vsyscall_mode != NATIVE) + vsyscall_pgprot = __PAGE_KERNEL_VVAR; if (vsyscall_mode != NONE) __set_fixmap(VSYSCALL_PAGE, physaddr_vsyscall, - vsyscall_mode == NATIVE - ? PAGE_KERNEL_VSYSCALL - : PAGE_KERNEL_VVAR); + __pgprot(vsyscall_pgprot)); BUILD_BUG_ON((unsigned long)__fix_to_virt(VSYSCALL_PAGE) != (unsigned long)VSYSCALL_ADDR); --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ extern void map_vsyscall(void); */ extern bool emulate_vsyscall(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address); extern bool vsyscall_enabled(void); +extern unsigned long vsyscall_pgprot; #else static inline void map_vsyscall(void) {} static inline bool emulate_vsyscall(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address) --- a/arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c @@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ void __init kaiser_init(void) if (vsyscall_enabled()) kaiser_add_user_map_early((void *)VSYSCALL_ADDR, PAGE_SIZE, - __PAGE_KERNEL_VSYSCALL); + vsyscall_pgprot); for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) { void *percpu_vaddr = __per_cpu_user_mapped_start + Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/vsyscall-fix-permissions-for-emulate-mode-with-kaiser-pti.patch