From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:43334 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751190AbeACSDo (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jan 2018 13:03:44 -0500 Subject: Patch "kaiser: disabled on Xen PV" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree To: jkosina@suse.cz, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: , From: Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2018 19:03:34 +0100 Message-ID: <151500261470174@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled kaiser: disabled on Xen PV 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: kaiser-disabled-on-xen-pv.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 know about it. >>From foo@baz Wed Jan 3 18:58:12 CET 2018 From: Jiri Kosina Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 14:19:49 +0100 Subject: kaiser: disabled on Xen PV From: Jiri Kosina Kaiser cannot be used on paravirtualized MMUs (namely reading and writing CR3). This does not work with KAISER as the CR3 switch from and to user space PGD would require to map the whole XEN_PV machinery into both. More importantly, enabling KAISER on Xen PV doesn't make too much sense, as PV guests use distinct %cr3 values for kernel and user already. Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) --- a/arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c @@ -264,6 +264,9 @@ void __init kaiser_check_boottime_disabl char arg[5]; int ret; + if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_XENPV)) + goto silent_disable; + ret = cmdline_find_option(boot_command_line, "pti", arg, sizeof(arg)); if (ret > 0) { if (!strncmp(arg, "on", 2)) @@ -291,6 +294,8 @@ enable: disable: pr_info("Kernel/User page tables isolation: disabled\n"); + +silent_disable: kaiser_enabled = 0; setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_KAISER); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jkosina@suse.cz are queue-4.4/kaiser-vmstat-show-nr_kaisertable-as-nr_overhead.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-add-nokaiser-boot-option-using-alternative.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-fix-unlikely-error-in-alloc_ldt_struct.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-_pgd_alloc-without-__gfp_repeat-to-avoid-stalls.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-kaiser_flush_tlb_on_return_to_user-check-pcid.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-merged-update.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-delete-kaiser_real_switch-option.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-kaiser_remove_mapping-move-along-the-pgd.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-fix-perf-crashes.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-drop-is_atomic-arg-to-kaiser_pagetable_walk.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-load_new_mm_cr3-let-switch_user_cr3-flush-user.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-enhanced-by-kernel-and-user-pcids.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-x86_cr3_pcid_noflush-and-x86_cr3_pcid_user.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-use-alternative-instead-of-x86_cr3_pcid_noflush.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-stack-map-page_size-at-thread_size-page_size.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-name-that-0x1000-kaiser_shadow_pgd_offset.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-fix-regs-to-do_nmi-ifndef-config_kaiser.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-do-not-set-_page_nx-on-pgd_none.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-tidied-up-asm-kaiser.h-somewhat.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-cleanups-while-trying-for-gold-link.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-disabled-on-xen-pv.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-tidied-up-kaiser_add-remove_mapping-slightly.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-fix-build-and-fixme-in-alloc_ldt_struct.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-kernel-address-isolation.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-enomem-if-kaiser_pagetable_walk-null.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-asm-tlbflush.h-handle-nopge-at-lower-level.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-paranoid_entry-pass-cr3-need-to-paranoid_exit.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-kaiser-depends-on-smp.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-pcid-0-for-kernel-and-128-for-user.patch