Patch "x86/mm/pat: Don't report PAT on CPUs that don't support it" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    x86/mm/pat: Don't report PAT on CPUs that don't support it

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:
     x86-mm-pat-don-t-report-pat-on-cpus-that-don-t-support-it.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@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 99c13b8c8896d7bcb92753bf0c63a8de4326e78d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2017 19:04:23 -0400
Subject: x86/mm/pat: Don't report PAT on CPUs that don't support it

From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>

commit 99c13b8c8896d7bcb92753bf0c63a8de4326e78d upstream.

The pat_enabled() logic is broken on CPUs which do not support PAT and
where the initialization code fails to call pat_init(). Due to that the
enabled flag stays true and pat_enabled() returns true wrongfully.

As a consequence the mappings, e.g. for Xorg, are set up with the wrong
caching mode and the required MTRR setups are omitted.

To cure this the following changes are required:

  1) Make pat_enabled() return true only if PAT initialization was
     invoked and successful.

  2) Invoke init_cache_modes() unconditionally in setup_arch() and
     remove the extra callsites in pat_disable() and the pat disabled
     code path in pat_init().

Also rename __pat_enabled to pat_disabled to reflect the real purpose of
this variable.

Fixes: 9cd25aac1f44 ("x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is disabled")
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Bernhard Held <berny156@gmx.de>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LRH.2.02.1707041749300.3456@file01.intranet.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/include/asm/pat.h |    1 +
 arch/x86/kernel/setup.c    |    7 +++++++
 arch/x86/mm/pat.c          |   28 ++++++++++++----------------
 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pat.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pat.h
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 bool pat_enabled(void);
 void pat_disable(const char *reason);
 extern void pat_init(void);
+extern void init_cache_modes(void);
 
 extern int reserve_memtype(u64 start, u64 end,
 		enum page_cache_mode req_pcm, enum page_cache_mode *ret_pcm);
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
@@ -1048,6 +1048,13 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
 	if (mtrr_trim_uncached_memory(max_pfn))
 		max_pfn = e820_end_of_ram_pfn();
 
+	/*
+	 * This call is required when the CPU does not support PAT. If
+	 * mtrr_bp_init() invoked it already via pat_init() the call has no
+	 * effect.
+	 */
+	init_cache_modes();
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
 	/* max_low_pfn get updated here */
 	find_low_pfn_range();
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
@@ -36,14 +36,14 @@
 #undef pr_fmt
 #define pr_fmt(fmt) "" fmt
 
-static bool boot_cpu_done;
-
-static int __read_mostly __pat_enabled = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_PAT);
-static void init_cache_modes(void);
+static bool __read_mostly boot_cpu_done;
+static bool __read_mostly pat_disabled = !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_PAT);
+static bool __read_mostly pat_initialized;
+static bool __read_mostly init_cm_done;
 
 void pat_disable(const char *reason)
 {
-	if (!__pat_enabled)
+	if (pat_disabled)
 		return;
 
 	if (boot_cpu_done) {
@@ -51,10 +51,8 @@ void pat_disable(const char *reason)
 		return;
 	}
 
-	__pat_enabled = 0;
+	pat_disabled = true;
 	pr_info("x86/PAT: %s\n", reason);
-
-	init_cache_modes();
 }
 
 static int __init nopat(char *str)
@@ -66,7 +64,7 @@ early_param("nopat", nopat);
 
 bool pat_enabled(void)
 {
-	return !!__pat_enabled;
+	return pat_initialized;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pat_enabled);
 
@@ -204,6 +202,8 @@ static void __init_cache_modes(u64 pat)
 		update_cache_mode_entry(i, cache);
 	}
 	pr_info("x86/PAT: Configuration [0-7]: %s\n", pat_msg);
+
+	init_cm_done = true;
 }
 
 #define PAT(x, y)	((u64)PAT_ ## y << ((x)*8))
@@ -224,6 +224,7 @@ static void pat_bsp_init(u64 pat)
 	}
 
 	wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_CR_PAT, pat);
+	pat_initialized = true;
 
 	__init_cache_modes(pat);
 }
@@ -241,10 +242,9 @@ static void pat_ap_init(u64 pat)
 	wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_CR_PAT, pat);
 }
 
-static void init_cache_modes(void)
+void init_cache_modes(void)
 {
 	u64 pat = 0;
-	static int init_cm_done;
 
 	if (init_cm_done)
 		return;
@@ -286,8 +286,6 @@ static void init_cache_modes(void)
 	}
 
 	__init_cache_modes(pat);
-
-	init_cm_done = 1;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -305,10 +303,8 @@ void pat_init(void)
 	u64 pat;
 	struct cpuinfo_x86 *c = &boot_cpu_data;
 
-	if (!pat_enabled()) {
-		init_cache_modes();
+	if (pat_disabled)
 		return;
-	}
 
 	if ((c->x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_INTEL) &&
 	    (((c->x86 == 0x6) && (c->x86_model <= 0xd)) ||


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mpatocka@redhat.com are

queue-4.4/x86-mm-pat-don-t-report-pat-on-cpus-that-don-t-support-it.patch