Patch "x86/usercopy: Replace open coded stac/clac with __uaccess_{begin, end}" has been added to the 4.15-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    x86/usercopy: Replace open coded stac/clac with __uaccess_{begin, end}

to the 4.15-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:
     x86usercopy_Replace_open_coded_stacclac_with___uaccess_begin_end.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.15 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.


Subject: x86/usercopy: Replace open coded stac/clac with __uaccess_{begin, end}
From: Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com
Date: Mon Jan 29 17:02:44 2018 -0800

From: Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com

commit b5c4ae4f35325d520b230bab6eb3310613b72ac1

In preparation for converting some __uaccess_begin() instances to
__uacess_begin_nospec(), make sure all 'from user' uaccess paths are
using the _begin(), _end() helpers rather than open-coded stac() and
clac().

No functional changes.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: alan@linux.intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/151727416438.33451.17309465232057176966.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


---
 arch/x86/lib/usercopy_32.c |    8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/lib/usercopy_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/usercopy_32.c
@@ -331,12 +331,12 @@ do {									\
 
 unsigned long __copy_user_ll(void *to, const void *from, unsigned long n)
 {
-	stac();
+	__uaccess_begin();
 	if (movsl_is_ok(to, from, n))
 		__copy_user(to, from, n);
 	else
 		n = __copy_user_intel(to, from, n);
-	clac();
+	__uaccess_end();
 	return n;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__copy_user_ll);
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__copy_user_ll);
 unsigned long __copy_from_user_ll_nocache_nozero(void *to, const void __user *from,
 					unsigned long n)
 {
-	stac();
+	__uaccess_begin();
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_INTEL_USERCOPY
 	if (n > 64 && static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_XMM2))
 		n = __copy_user_intel_nocache(to, from, n);
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ unsigned long __copy_from_user_ll_nocach
 #else
 	__copy_user(to, from, n);
 #endif
-	clac();
+	__uaccess_end();
 	return n;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__copy_from_user_ll_nocache_nozero);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mingo@redhat.com are

queue-4.15/x86_Introduce_barrier_nospec.patch
queue-4.15/x86_Introduce___uaccess_begin_nospec()_and_uaccess_try_nospec.patch
queue-4.15/x86usercopy_Replace_open_coded_stacclac_with___uaccess_begin_end.patch