Patch "x86/boot: Fix BSS corruption/overwrite bug in early x86 kernel startup" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    x86/boot: Fix BSS corruption/overwrite bug in early x86 kernel startup

to the 4.9-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-boot-fix-bss-corruption-overwrite-bug-in-early-x86-kernel-startup.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 d594aa0277e541bb997aef0bc0a55172d8138340 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ashish Kalra <ashish@bluestacks.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 20:50:15 +0530
Subject: x86/boot: Fix BSS corruption/overwrite bug in early x86 kernel startup

From: Ashish Kalra <ashish@bluestacks.com>

commit d594aa0277e541bb997aef0bc0a55172d8138340 upstream.

The minimum size for a new stack (512 bytes) setup for arch/x86/boot components
when the bootloader does not setup/provide a stack for the early boot components
is not "enough".

The setup code executing as part of early kernel startup code, uses the stack
beyond 512 bytes and accidentally overwrites and corrupts part of the BSS
section. This is exposed mostly in the early video setup code, where
it was corrupting BSS variables like force_x, force_y, which in-turn affected
kernel parameters such as screen_info (screen_info.orig_video_cols) and
later caused an exception/panic in console_init().

Most recent boot loaders setup the stack for early boot components, so this
stack overwriting into BSS section issue has not been exposed.

Signed-off-by: Ashish Kalra <ashish@bluestacks.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170419152015.10011-1-ashishkalra@Ashishs-MacBook-Pro.local
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/boot/boot.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/boot/boot.h
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/boot.h
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 #ifndef BOOT_BOOT_H
 #define BOOT_BOOT_H
 
-#define STACK_SIZE	512	/* Minimum number of bytes for stack */
+#define STACK_SIZE	1024	/* Minimum number of bytes for stack */
 
 #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ashish@bluestacks.com are

queue-4.9/x86-boot-fix-bss-corruption-overwrite-bug-in-early-x86-kernel-startup.patch