From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: namit@vmware.com, arjan@linux.intel.com, bp@alien8.de,
dan.j.williams@intel.com, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com,
dwmw2@infradead.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
jpoimboe@redhat.com, luto@kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org,
peterz@infradead.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>, <stable-commits@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Patch "x86/mm/pti: Fix PTI comment in entry_SYSCALL_64()" has been added to the 4.15-stable tree
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 09:46:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15191164032437@kroah.com> (raw)
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/mm/pti: Fix PTI comment in entry_SYSCALL_64()
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:
x86-mm-pti-fix-pti-comment-in-entry_syscall_64.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.
>From 14b1fcc62043729d12e8ae00f8297ab2ffe9fa91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 09:06:38 -0800
Subject: x86/mm/pti: Fix PTI comment in entry_SYSCALL_64()
From: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
commit 14b1fcc62043729d12e8ae00f8297ab2ffe9fa91 upstream.
The comment is confusing since the path is taken when
CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION=y is disabled (while the comment says it is not
taken).
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: nadav.amit@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180209170638.15161-1-namit@vmware.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ ENTRY(entry_SYSCALL_64)
swapgs
/*
- * This path is not taken when PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION is disabled so it
+ * This path is only taken when PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION is disabled so it
* is not required to switch CR3.
*/
movq %rsp, PER_CPU_VAR(rsp_scratch)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from namit@vmware.com are
queue-4.15/x86-mm-pti-fix-pti-comment-in-entry_syscall_64.patch
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