Patch "x86/asm/64: Clear AC on NMI entries" 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/asm/64: Clear AC on NMI entries

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-asm-64-clear-ac-on-nmi-entries.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 e93c17301ac55321fc18e0f8316e924e58a83c8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2017 19:43:13 -0700
Subject: x86/asm/64: Clear AC on NMI entries

From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>

commit e93c17301ac55321fc18e0f8316e924e58a83c8c upstream.

This closes a hole in our SMAP implementation.

This patch comes from grsecurity. Good catch!

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>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/314cc9f294e8f14ed85485727556ad4f15bb1659.1502159503.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
@@ -1190,6 +1190,8 @@ ENTRY(nmi)
 	 * other IST entries.
 	 */
 
+	ASM_CLAC
+
 	/* Use %rdx as our temp variable throughout */
 	pushq	%rdx
 


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

queue-4.4/x86-asm-64-clear-ac-on-nmi-entries.patch