4.15-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 31ad7f8e7dc94d3b85ccf9b6141ce6dfd35a1781 upstream.
Writing to it directly does not work for Xen PV guests.
Fixes: 49275fef986a ("x86/vsyscall/64: Explicitly set _PAGE_USER in the pagetable hierarchy")
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180319143154.3742-1-boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ void __init set_vsyscall_pgtable_user_bi
set_pgd(pgd, __pgd(pgd_val(*pgd) | _PAGE_USER));
p4d = p4d_offset(pgd, VSYSCALL_ADDR);
#if CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS >= 5
- p4d->p4d |= _PAGE_USER;
+ set_p4d(p4d, __p4d(p4d_val(*p4d) | _PAGE_USER));
#endif
pud = pud_offset(p4d, VSYSCALL_ADDR);
set_pud(pud, __pud(pud_val(*pud) | _PAGE_USER));