Patch "x86/mm: Fix types used in pgprot cacheability flags translations" 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

    x86/mm: Fix types used in pgprot cacheability flags translations

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:
     x86-mm-fix-types-used-in-pgprot-cacheability-flags-translations.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 3625c2c234ef66acf21a72d47a5ffa94f6c5ebf2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 04:15:18 -0700
Subject: x86/mm: Fix types used in pgprot cacheability flags translations

From: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>

commit 3625c2c234ef66acf21a72d47a5ffa94f6c5ebf2 upstream.

For PAE kernels "unsigned long" is not suitable to hold page protection
flags, since _PAGE_NX doesn't fit there. This is the reason for quite a
few W+X pages getting reported as insecure during boot (observed namely
for the entire initrd range).

Fixes: 281d4078be ("x86: Make page cache mode a real type")
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <JGross@suse.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/56A7635602000078000CAFF1@prv-mh.provo.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h |    6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
@@ -363,20 +363,18 @@ static inline enum page_cache_mode pgpro
 }
 static inline pgprot_t pgprot_4k_2_large(pgprot_t pgprot)
 {
+	pgprotval_t val = pgprot_val(pgprot);
 	pgprot_t new;
-	unsigned long val;
 
-	val = pgprot_val(pgprot);
 	pgprot_val(new) = (val & ~(_PAGE_PAT | _PAGE_PAT_LARGE)) |
 		((val & _PAGE_PAT) << (_PAGE_BIT_PAT_LARGE - _PAGE_BIT_PAT));
 	return new;
 }
 static inline pgprot_t pgprot_large_2_4k(pgprot_t pgprot)
 {
+	pgprotval_t val = pgprot_val(pgprot);
 	pgprot_t new;
-	unsigned long val;
 
-	val = pgprot_val(pgprot);
 	pgprot_val(new) = (val & ~(_PAGE_PAT | _PAGE_PAT_LARGE)) |
 			  ((val & _PAGE_PAT_LARGE) >>
 			   (_PAGE_BIT_PAT_LARGE - _PAGE_BIT_PAT));


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from JBeulich@suse.com are

queue-4.4/x86-mm-fix-types-used-in-pgprot-cacheability-flags-translations.patch