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From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3 5.2-stable] Sync mappings in vmalloc/ioremap areas
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 09:57:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190814075751.GC9222@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190813183642.GC6582@kroah.com>

Hi Greg,

On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 08:36:42PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 05:28:11PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
> > 
> > Backport commits from upstream to fix a data corruption
> > issue that gets exposed when using PTI on x86-32.
> > 
> > Please consider them for inclusion into stable-5.2.
> 
> Thanks for these.  Based on the Fixes: tags on the commits, I've taken
> them all the way back to 4.4.y.

Thank you! The problem almost only exposes itself when PTI on x86-32 is
enabled (which was merged in 4.19), so I only backported down to that
kernel.

But it is right that it might be possible to trigger the problem on
older kernels too, e.g. in some 32bit XEN-pv configurations that use
same PAE page-table structures as the PTI code for 32bit.

So thanks for picking the fixes up for the older kernels too.


Regards,

	Joerg


      reply	other threads:[~2019-08-14  7:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-13 15:28 [PATCH 0/3 5.2-stable] Sync mappings in vmalloc/ioremap areas Joerg Roedel
2019-08-13 15:28 ` [PATCH 1/3] x86/mm: Check for pfn instead of page in vmalloc_sync_one() Joerg Roedel
2019-08-13 15:28 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86/mm: Sync also unmappings in vmalloc_sync_all() Joerg Roedel
2019-08-13 15:28 ` [PATCH 3/3] mm/vmalloc: Sync unmappings in __purge_vmap_area_lazy() Joerg Roedel
2019-08-13 18:36 ` [PATCH 0/3 5.2-stable] Sync mappings in vmalloc/ioremap areas Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-14  7:57   ` Joerg Roedel [this message]

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