Patch "s390/ctl_reg: make __ctl_load a full memory barrier" 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

    s390/ctl_reg: make __ctl_load a full memory barrier

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:
     s390-ctl_reg-make-__ctl_load-a-full-memory-barrier.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 foo@baz Mon Jul  3 13:41:44 CEST 2017
From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 11:33:48 +0100
Subject: s390/ctl_reg: make __ctl_load a full memory barrier

From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>


[ Upstream commit e991c24d68b8c0ba297eeb7af80b1e398e98c33f ]

We have quite a lot of code that depends on the order of the
__ctl_load inline assemby and subsequent memory accesses, like
e.g. disabling lowcore protection and the writing to lowcore.

Since the __ctl_load macro does not have memory barrier semantics, nor
any other dependencies the compiler is, theoretically, free to shuffle
code around. Or in other words: storing to lowcore could happen before
lowcore protection is disabled.

In order to avoid this class of potential bugs simply add a full
memory barrier to the __ctl_load macro.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/s390/include/asm/ctl_reg.h |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/s390/include/asm/ctl_reg.h
+++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/ctl_reg.h
@@ -15,7 +15,9 @@
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(addrtype) != (high - low + 1) * sizeof(long));\
 	asm volatile(							\
 		"	lctlg	%1,%2,%0\n"				\
-		: : "Q" (*(addrtype *)(&array)), "i" (low), "i" (high));\
+		:							\
+		: "Q" (*(addrtype *)(&array)), "i" (low), "i" (high)	\
+		: "memory");						\
 }
 
 #define __ctl_store(array, low, high) {					\


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com are

queue-4.4/s390-ctl_reg-make-__ctl_load-a-full-memory-barrier.patch