Patch "x86/mm/pti: Remove dead logic in pti_user_pagetable_walk*()" 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/mm/pti: Remove dead logic in pti_user_pagetable_walk*()

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-mm-pti-remove-dead-logic-in-pti_user_pagetable_walk.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 8d56eff266f3e41a6c39926269c4c3f58f881a8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jike Song <albcamus@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 00:03:41 +0800
Subject: x86/mm/pti: Remove dead logic in pti_user_pagetable_walk*()

From: Jike Song <albcamus@gmail.com>

commit 8d56eff266f3e41a6c39926269c4c3f58f881a8e upstream.

The following code contains dead logic:

 162 if (pgd_none(*pgd)) {
 163         unsigned long new_p4d_page = __get_free_page(gfp);
 164         if (!new_p4d_page)
 165                 return NULL;
 166
 167         if (pgd_none(*pgd)) {
 168                 set_pgd(pgd, __pgd(_KERNPG_TABLE | __pa(new_p4d_page)));
 169                 new_p4d_page = 0;
 170         }
 171         if (new_p4d_page)
 172                 free_page(new_p4d_page);
 173 }

There can't be any difference between two pgd_none(*pgd) at L162 and L167,
so it's always false at L171.

Dave Hansen explained:

 Yes, the double-test was part of an optimization where we attempted to
 avoid using a global spinlock in the fork() path.  We would check for
 unallocated mid-level page tables without the lock.  The lock was only
 taken when we needed to *make* an entry to avoid collisions.

 Now that it is all single-threaded, there is no chance of a collision,
 no need for a lock, and no need for the re-check.

As all these functions are only called during init, mark them __init as
well.

Fixes: 03f4424f348e ("x86/mm/pti: Add functions to clone kernel PMDs")
Signed-off-by: Jike Song <albcamus@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Koshina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>
Cc: Andi Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180108160341.3461-1-albcamus@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/mm/pti.c |   32 ++++++--------------------------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ pgd_t __pti_set_user_pgd(pgd_t *pgdp, pg
  *
  * Returns a pointer to a P4D on success, or NULL on failure.
  */
-static p4d_t *pti_user_pagetable_walk_p4d(unsigned long address)
+static __init p4d_t *pti_user_pagetable_walk_p4d(unsigned long address)
 {
 	pgd_t *pgd = kernel_to_user_pgdp(pgd_offset_k(address));
 	gfp_t gfp = (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_ZERO);
@@ -164,12 +164,7 @@ static p4d_t *pti_user_pagetable_walk_p4
 		if (!new_p4d_page)
 			return NULL;
 
-		if (pgd_none(*pgd)) {
-			set_pgd(pgd, __pgd(_KERNPG_TABLE | __pa(new_p4d_page)));
-			new_p4d_page = 0;
-		}
-		if (new_p4d_page)
-			free_page(new_p4d_page);
+		set_pgd(pgd, __pgd(_KERNPG_TABLE | __pa(new_p4d_page)));
 	}
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(pgd_large(*pgd) != 0);
 
@@ -182,7 +177,7 @@ static p4d_t *pti_user_pagetable_walk_p4
  *
  * Returns a pointer to a PMD on success, or NULL on failure.
  */
-static pmd_t *pti_user_pagetable_walk_pmd(unsigned long address)
+static __init pmd_t *pti_user_pagetable_walk_pmd(unsigned long address)
 {
 	gfp_t gfp = (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_ZERO);
 	p4d_t *p4d = pti_user_pagetable_walk_p4d(address);
@@ -194,12 +189,7 @@ static pmd_t *pti_user_pagetable_walk_pm
 		if (!new_pud_page)
 			return NULL;
 
-		if (p4d_none(*p4d)) {
-			set_p4d(p4d, __p4d(_KERNPG_TABLE | __pa(new_pud_page)));
-			new_pud_page = 0;
-		}
-		if (new_pud_page)
-			free_page(new_pud_page);
+		set_p4d(p4d, __p4d(_KERNPG_TABLE | __pa(new_pud_page)));
 	}
 
 	pud = pud_offset(p4d, address);
@@ -213,12 +203,7 @@ static pmd_t *pti_user_pagetable_walk_pm
 		if (!new_pmd_page)
 			return NULL;
 
-		if (pud_none(*pud)) {
-			set_pud(pud, __pud(_KERNPG_TABLE | __pa(new_pmd_page)));
-			new_pmd_page = 0;
-		}
-		if (new_pmd_page)
-			free_page(new_pmd_page);
+		set_pud(pud, __pud(_KERNPG_TABLE | __pa(new_pmd_page)));
 	}
 
 	return pmd_offset(pud, address);
@@ -251,12 +236,7 @@ static __init pte_t *pti_user_pagetable_
 		if (!new_pte_page)
 			return NULL;
 
-		if (pmd_none(*pmd)) {
-			set_pmd(pmd, __pmd(_KERNPG_TABLE | __pa(new_pte_page)));
-			new_pte_page = 0;
-		}
-		if (new_pte_page)
-			free_page(new_pte_page);
+		set_pmd(pmd, __pmd(_KERNPG_TABLE | __pa(new_pte_page)));
 	}
 
 	pte = pte_offset_kernel(pmd, address);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from albcamus@gmail.com are

queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-remove-dead-logic-in-pti_user_pagetable_walk.patch