Patch "x86/entry/64: Remove the RESTORE_..._REGS infrastructure" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    x86/entry/64: Remove the RESTORE_..._REGS infrastructure

to the 4.14-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-entry-64-remove-the-restore_..._regs-infrastructure.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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 c39858de696f0cc160a544455e8403d663d577e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 00:59:06 -0700
Subject: x86/entry/64: Remove the RESTORE_..._REGS infrastructure

From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>

commit c39858de696f0cc160a544455e8403d663d577e9 upstream.

All users of RESTORE_EXTRA_REGS, RESTORE_C_REGS and such, and
REMOVE_PT_GPREGS_FROM_STACK are gone.  Delete the macros.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bpetkov@suse.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.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/c32672f6e47c561893316d48e06c7656b1039a36.1509609304.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/entry/calling.h |   52 -----------------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 52 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/entry/calling.h
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/calling.h
@@ -142,16 +142,6 @@ For 32-bit we have the following convent
 	UNWIND_HINT_REGS offset=\offset
 	.endm
 
-	.macro RESTORE_EXTRA_REGS offset=0
-	movq 0*8+\offset(%rsp), %r15
-	movq 1*8+\offset(%rsp), %r14
-	movq 2*8+\offset(%rsp), %r13
-	movq 3*8+\offset(%rsp), %r12
-	movq 4*8+\offset(%rsp), %rbp
-	movq 5*8+\offset(%rsp), %rbx
-	UNWIND_HINT_REGS offset=\offset extra=0
-	.endm
-
 	.macro POP_EXTRA_REGS
 	popq %r15
 	popq %r14
@@ -173,48 +163,6 @@ For 32-bit we have the following convent
 	popq %rdi
 	.endm
 
-	.macro RESTORE_C_REGS_HELPER rstor_rax=1, rstor_rcx=1, rstor_r11=1, rstor_r8910=1, rstor_rdx=1
-	.if \rstor_r11
-	movq 6*8(%rsp), %r11
-	.endif
-	.if \rstor_r8910
-	movq 7*8(%rsp), %r10
-	movq 8*8(%rsp), %r9
-	movq 9*8(%rsp), %r8
-	.endif
-	.if \rstor_rax
-	movq 10*8(%rsp), %rax
-	.endif
-	.if \rstor_rcx
-	movq 11*8(%rsp), %rcx
-	.endif
-	.if \rstor_rdx
-	movq 12*8(%rsp), %rdx
-	.endif
-	movq 13*8(%rsp), %rsi
-	movq 14*8(%rsp), %rdi
-	UNWIND_HINT_IRET_REGS offset=16*8
-	.endm
-	.macro RESTORE_C_REGS
-	RESTORE_C_REGS_HELPER 1,1,1,1,1
-	.endm
-	.macro RESTORE_C_REGS_EXCEPT_RAX
-	RESTORE_C_REGS_HELPER 0,1,1,1,1
-	.endm
-	.macro RESTORE_C_REGS_EXCEPT_RCX
-	RESTORE_C_REGS_HELPER 1,0,1,1,1
-	.endm
-	.macro RESTORE_C_REGS_EXCEPT_R11
-	RESTORE_C_REGS_HELPER 1,1,0,1,1
-	.endm
-	.macro RESTORE_C_REGS_EXCEPT_RCX_R11
-	RESTORE_C_REGS_HELPER 1,0,0,1,1
-	.endm
-
-	.macro REMOVE_PT_GPREGS_FROM_STACK addskip=0
-	subq $-(15*8+\addskip), %rsp
-	.endm
-
 	.macro icebp
 	.byte 0xf1
 	.endm


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

queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-simplify-reg-restore-code-in-the-standard-iret-paths.patch
queue-4.14/x86-cpufeatures-fix-various-details-in-the-feature-definitions.patch
queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-move-the-ist-stacks-into-struct-cpu_entry_area.patch
queue-4.14/x86-dumpstack-add-get_stack_info-support-for-the-sysenter-stack.patch
queue-4.14/x86-asm-don-t-use-the-confusing-.ifeq-directive.patch
queue-4.14/selftests-x86-ldt_gdt-add-infrastructure-to-test-set_thread_area.patch
queue-4.14/x86-entry-remap-the-tss-into-the-cpu-entry-area.patch
queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-paravirt-use-paravirt-safe-macro-to-access-eflags.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-fixmap-generalize-the-gdt-fixmap-mechanism-introduce-struct-cpu_entry_area.patch
queue-4.14/x86-paravirt-dont-patch-flush_tlb_single.patch
queue-4.14/x86-dumpstack-handle-stack-overflow-on-all-stacks.patch
queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-use-pop-instead-of-movq-in-syscall_return_via_sysret.patch
queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-return-to-userspace-from-the-trampoline-stack.patch
queue-4.14/x86-paravirt-provide-a-way-to-check-for-hypervisors.patch
queue-4.14/xen-x86-entry-64-add-xen-nmi-trap-entry.patch
queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-remove-the-restore_c_regs_and_iret-label.patch
queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-create-a-per-cpu-syscall-entry-trampoline.patch
queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-remove-the-restore_..._regs-infrastructure.patch
queue-4.14/x86-xen-64-x86-entry-64-clean-up-sp-code-in-cpu_initialize_context.patch
queue-4.14/x86-entry-add-task_top_of_stack-to-find-the-top-of-a-task-s-stack.patch
queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-remove-all-remaining-direct-thread_struct-sp0-reads.patch
queue-4.14/x86-boot-relocate-definition-of-the-initial-state-of-cr0.patch
queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-stop-initializing-tss.sp0-at-boot.patch
queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-de-xen-ify-our-nmi-code.patch
queue-4.14/objtool-don-t-report-end-of-section-error-after-an-empty-unwind-hint.patch
queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-pass-sp0-directly-to-load_sp0.patch
queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-use-a-per-cpu-trampoline-stack-for-idt-entries.patch
queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-move-swapgs-into-the-common-iret-to-usermode-path.patch
queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-shorten-test-instructions.patch
queue-4.14/x86-cpufeature-add-user-mode-instruction-prevention-definitions.patch
queue-4.14/x86-cpufeatures-make-cpu-bugs-sticky.patch
queue-4.14/x86-espfix-64-stop-assuming-that-pt_regs-is-on-the-entry-stack.patch
queue-4.14/x86-traps-use-a-new-on_thread_stack-helper-to-clean-up-an-assertion.patch
queue-4.14/x86-xen-fix-xen-head-elf-annotations.patch
queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-remove-thread_struct-sp0.patch
queue-4.14/x86-entry-move-sysenter_stack-to-the-beginning-of-struct-tss_struct.patch
queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-allocate-and-enable-the-sysenter-stack.patch
queue-4.14/x86-unwinder-orc-dont-bail-on-stack-overflow.patch
queue-4.14/x86-head-fix-head-elf-function-annotations.patch
queue-4.14/selftests-x86-ldt_gdt-run-most-existing-ldt-test-cases-against-the-gdt-as-well.patch
queue-4.14/x86-entry-32-pull-the-msr_ia32_sysenter_cs-update-code-out-of-native_load_sp0.patch
queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-split-the-iret-to-user-and-iret-to-kernel-paths.patch
queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-shrink-paranoid_exit_restore-and-make-labels-local.patch
queue-4.14/x86-head-add-unwind-hint-annotations.patch
queue-4.14/x86-head-remove-unused-bad_address-code.patch
queue-4.14/x86-xen-add-unwind-hint-annotations.patch
queue-4.14/x86-kasan-64-teach-kasan-about-the-cpu_entry_area.patch
queue-4.14/x86-head-remove-confusing-comment.patch
queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-remove-the-sysenter-stack-canary.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-kasan-don-t-use-vmemmap_populate-to-initialize-shadow.patch
queue-4.14/x86-entry-gdt-put-per-cpu-gdt-remaps-in-ascending-order.patch
queue-4.14/x86-entry-fix-assumptions-that-the-hw-tss-is-at-the-beginning-of-cpu_tss.patch
queue-4.14/x86-cpufeatures-re-tabulate-the-x86_feature-definitions.patch
queue-4.14/x86-entry-32-fix-cpu_current_top_of_stack-initialization-at-boot.patch
queue-4.14/ptrace-x86-make-user_64bit_mode-available-to-32-bit-builds.patch
queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-make-cpu_entry_area.tss-read-only.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-relocate-page-fault-error-codes-to-traps.h.patch
queue-4.14/x86-unwinder-handle-stack-overflows-more-gracefully.patch
queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-use-pop-instead-of-mov-to-restore-regs-on-nmi-return.patch
queue-4.14/x86-irq-64-print-the-offending-ip-in-the-stack-overflow-warning.patch
queue-4.14/x86-entry-clean-up-the-sysenter_stack-code.patch
queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-merge-the-fast-and-slow-sysret-paths.patch
queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-separate-cpu_current_top_of_stack-from-tss.sp0.patch
queue-4.14/x86-boot-annotate-verify_cpu-as-a-callable-function.patch
queue-4.14/x86-irq-remove-an-old-outdated-comment-about-context-tracking-races.patch