This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
kaiser: allocate pgd with order 0 when pti=off
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:
kaiser-allocate-pgd-with-order-0-when-pti-off.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 hughd@xxxxxxxxxx Mon Feb 5 05:00:13 2018
From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 18:17:58 -0800
Subject: kaiser: allocate pgd with order 0 when pti=off
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>, Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>, Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@xxxxxxxxxx>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>, stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Message-ID: <20180130021758.229507-1-hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
The 4.9.77 version of "x86/pti/efi: broken conversion from efi to kernel
page table" looked nicer than the 4.4.112 version, but was suboptimal on
machines booted with "pti=off" (or on AMD machines): it allocated pgd
with an order 1 page whatever the setting of kaiser_enabled.
Fix that by moving the definition of PGD_ALLOCATION_ORDER from
asm/pgalloc.h to asm/pgtable.h, which already defines kaiser_enabled.
Fixes: 1b92c48a2eeb ("x86/pti/efi: broken conversion from efi to kernel page table")
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/pgalloc.h | 11 -----------
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h | 6 ++++++
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgalloc.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgalloc.h
@@ -27,17 +27,6 @@ static inline void paravirt_release_pud(
*/
extern gfp_t __userpte_alloc_gfp;
-#ifdef CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION
-/*
- * Instead of one PGD, we acquire two PGDs. Being order-1, it is
- * both 8k in size and 8k-aligned. That lets us just flip bit 12
- * in a pointer to swap between the two 4k halves.
- */
-#define PGD_ALLOCATION_ORDER 1
-#else
-#define PGD_ALLOCATION_ORDER 0
-#endif
-
/*
* Allocate and free page tables.
*/
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -20,9 +20,15 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION
extern int kaiser_enabled;
+/*
+ * Instead of one PGD, we acquire two PGDs. Being order-1, it is
+ * both 8k in size and 8k-aligned. That lets us just flip bit 12
+ * in a pointer to swap between the two 4k halves.
+ */
#else
#define kaiser_enabled 0
#endif
+#define PGD_ALLOCATION_ORDER kaiser_enabled
void ptdump_walk_pgd_level(struct seq_file *m, pgd_t *pgd);
void ptdump_walk_pgd_level_checkwx(void);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hughd@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/kaiser-allocate-pgd-with-order-0-when-pti-off.patch
queue-4.9/x86-pti-make-unpoison-of-pgd-for-trusted-boot-work-for-real.patch
queue-4.9/kaiser-fix-intel_bts-perf-crashes.patch