Patch "x86/irq: Remove an old outdated comment about context tracking races" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree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    x86/irq: Remove an old outdated comment about context tracking races

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     x86-irq-remove-an-old-outdated-comment-about-context-tracking-races.patch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 6669a692605547892a026445e460bf233958bd7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 15:07:10 +0100
Subject: x86/irq: Remove an old outdated comment about context tracking races

From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>

commit 6669a692605547892a026445e460bf233958bd7f upstream.

That race has been fixed and code cleaned up for a while now.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bpetkov@suse.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@amazon.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: aliguori@amazon.com
Cc: daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at
Cc: hughd@google.com
Cc: keescook@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171204150605.150551639@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/irq.c |   12 ------------
 1 file changed, 12 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c
@@ -219,18 +219,6 @@ __visible unsigned int __irq_entry do_IR
 	/* high bit used in ret_from_ code  */
 	unsigned vector = ~regs->orig_ax;
 
-	/*
-	 * NB: Unlike exception entries, IRQ entries do not reliably
-	 * handle context tracking in the low-level entry code.  This is
-	 * because syscall entries execute briefly with IRQs on before
-	 * updating context tracking state, so we can take an IRQ from
-	 * kernel mode with CONTEXT_USER.  The low-level entry code only
-	 * updates the context if we came from user mode, so we won't
-	 * switch to CONTEXT_KERNEL.  We'll fix that once the syscall
-	 * code is cleaned up enough that we can cleanly defer enabling
-	 * IRQs.
-	 */
-
 	entering_irq();
 
 	/* entering_irq() tells RCU that we're not quiescent.  Check it. */


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