Patch "x86/traps: Ignore high word of regs->cs in early_fixup_exception()" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    x86/traps: Ignore high word of regs->cs in early_fixup_exception()

to the 4.8-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-traps-ignore-high-word-of-regs-cs-in-early_fixup_exception.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From fc0e81b2bea0ebceb71889b61d2240856141c9ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 18:42:40 -0800
Subject: x86/traps: Ignore high word of regs->cs in early_fixup_exception()

From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>

commit fc0e81b2bea0ebceb71889b61d2240856141c9ee upstream.

On the 80486 DX, it seems that some exceptions may leave garbage in
the high bits of CS.  This causes sporadic failures in which
early_fixup_exception() refuses to fix up an exception.

As far as I can tell, this has been buggy for a long time, but the
problem seems to have been exacerbated by commits:

  1e02ce4cccdc ("x86: Store a per-cpu shadow copy of CR4")
  e1bfc11c5a6f ("x86/init: Fix cr4_init_shadow() on CR4-less machines")

This appears to have broken for as long as we've had early
exception handling.

[ Note to stable maintainers: This patch is needed all the way back to 3.4,
  but it will only apply to 4.6 and up, as it depends on commit:

    0e861fbb5bda ("x86/head: Move early exception panic code into early_fixup_exception()")

  If you want to backport to kernels before 4.6, please don't backport the
  prerequisites (there was a big chain of them that rewrote a lot of the
  early exception machinery); instead, ask me and I can send you a one-liner
  that will apply. ]

Reported-by: Matthew Whitehead <tedheadster@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 4c5023a3fa2e ("x86-32: Handle exception table entries during early boot")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cb32c69920e58a1a58e7b5cad975038a69c0ce7d.1479609510.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/mm/extable.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/mm/extable.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/extable.c
@@ -135,7 +135,12 @@ void __init early_fixup_exception(struct
 	if (early_recursion_flag > 2)
 		goto halt_loop;
 
-	if (regs->cs != __KERNEL_CS)
+	/*
+	 * Old CPUs leave the high bits of CS on the stack
+	 * undefined.  I'm not sure which CPUs do this, but at least
+	 * the 486 DX works this way.
+	 */
+	if ((regs->cs & 0xFFFF) != __KERNEL_CS)
 		goto fail;
 
 	/*


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from luto@kernel.org are

queue-4.8/x86-fpu-fix-invalid-fpu-ptrace-state-after-execve.patch
queue-4.8/x86-traps-ignore-high-word-of-regs-cs-in-early_fixup_exception.patch