Patch "kaiser: tidied up asm/kaiser.h somewhat" 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

    kaiser: tidied up asm/kaiser.h somewhat

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-tidied-up-asm-kaiser.h-somewhat.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 foo@baz Wed Jan  3 18:58:12 CET 2018
From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2017 19:18:07 -0700
Subject: kaiser: tidied up asm/kaiser.h somewhat

From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>


Mainly deleting a surfeit of blank lines, and reflowing header comment.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/kaiser.h |   32 +++++++++++++-------------------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kaiser.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kaiser.h
@@ -1,15 +1,17 @@
 #ifndef _ASM_X86_KAISER_H
 #define _ASM_X86_KAISER_H
-
-/* This file includes the definitions for the KAISER feature.
- * KAISER is a counter measure against x86_64 side channel attacks on the kernel virtual memory.
- * It has a shodow-pgd for every process. the shadow-pgd has a minimalistic kernel-set mapped,
- * but includes the whole user memory. Within a kernel context switch, or when an interrupt is handled,
- * the pgd is switched to the normal one. When the system switches to user mode, the shadow pgd is enabled.
- * By this, the virtual memory chaches are freed, and the user may not attack the whole kernel memory.
+/*
+ * This file includes the definitions for the KAISER feature.
+ * KAISER is a counter measure against x86_64 side channel attacks on
+ * the kernel virtual memory.  It has a shadow pgd for every process: the
+ * shadow pgd has a minimalistic kernel-set mapped, but includes the whole
+ * user memory. Within a kernel context switch, or when an interrupt is handled,
+ * the pgd is switched to the normal one. When the system switches to user mode,
+ * the shadow pgd is enabled. By this, the virtual memory caches are freed,
+ * and the user may not attack the whole kernel memory.
  *
- * A minimalistic kernel mapping holds the parts needed to be mapped in user mode, as the entry/exit functions
- * of the user space, or the stacks.
+ * A minimalistic kernel mapping holds the parts needed to be mapped in user
+ * mode, such as the entry/exit functions of the user space, or the stacks.
  */
 #ifdef __ASSEMBLY__
 #ifdef CONFIG_KAISER
@@ -48,13 +50,10 @@ _SWITCH_TO_KERNEL_CR3 %rax
 movq PER_CPU_VAR(unsafe_stack_register_backup), %rax
 .endm
 
-
 .macro SWITCH_USER_CR3_NO_STACK
-
 movq %rax, PER_CPU_VAR(unsafe_stack_register_backup)
 _SWITCH_TO_USER_CR3 %rax
 movq PER_CPU_VAR(unsafe_stack_register_backup), %rax
-
 .endm
 
 #else /* CONFIG_KAISER */
@@ -72,7 +71,6 @@ movq PER_CPU_VAR(unsafe_stack_register_b
 
 #else /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
 
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_KAISER
 /*
  * Upon kernel/user mode switch, it may happen that the address
@@ -80,7 +78,6 @@ movq PER_CPU_VAR(unsafe_stack_register_b
  * stored.  To change the address space, another register is
  * needed.  A register therefore has to be stored/restored.
 */
-
 DECLARE_PER_CPU_USER_MAPPED(unsigned long, unsafe_stack_register_backup);
 
 /**
@@ -95,7 +92,6 @@ DECLARE_PER_CPU_USER_MAPPED(unsigned lon
  */
 extern int kaiser_add_mapping(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size, unsigned long flags);
 
-
 /**
  *  kaiser_remove_mapping - unmap a virtual memory part of the shadow mapping
  *  @addr: the start address of the range
@@ -104,12 +100,12 @@ extern int kaiser_add_mapping(unsigned l
 extern void kaiser_remove_mapping(unsigned long start, unsigned long size);
 
 /**
- *  kaiser_initialize_mapping - Initalize the shadow mapping
+ *  kaiser_init - Initialize the shadow mapping
  *
  *  Most parts of the shadow mapping can be mapped upon boot
  *  time.  Only per-process things like the thread stacks
  *  or a new LDT have to be mapped at runtime.  These boot-
- *  time mappings are permanent and nevertunmapped.
+ *  time mappings are permanent and never unmapped.
  */
 extern void kaiser_init(void);
 
@@ -117,6 +113,4 @@ extern void kaiser_init(void);
 
 #endif /* __ASSEMBLY */
 
-
-
 #endif /* _ASM_X86_KAISER_H */


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hughd@google.com 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/x86-paravirt-dont-patch-flush_tlb_single.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-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