Patch "x86/microcode: Dont abuse the TLB-flush interface" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    x86/microcode: Dont abuse the TLB-flush interface

to the 4.14-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-microcode-dont-abuse-the-tlb-flush-interface.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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 23cb7d46f371844c004784ad9552a57446f73e5a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 13:34:51 +0100
Subject: x86/microcode: Dont abuse the TLB-flush interface

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

commit 23cb7d46f371844c004784ad9552a57446f73e5a upstream.

Commit:

  ec400ddeff20 ("x86/microcode_intel_early.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU")

... grubbed into tlbflush internals without coherent explanation.

Since it says its a precaution and the SDM doesn't mention anything like
this, take it out back.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@amazon.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: aliguori@amazon.com
Cc: daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com
Cc: hughd@google.com
Cc: keescook@google.com
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h       |   19 ++++++-------------
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c |   13 -------------
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
@@ -246,20 +246,9 @@ static inline void __native_flush_tlb(vo
 	preempt_enable();
 }
 
-static inline void __native_flush_tlb_global_irq_disabled(void)
-{
-	unsigned long cr4;
-
-	cr4 = this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.cr4);
-	/* clear PGE */
-	native_write_cr4(cr4 & ~X86_CR4_PGE);
-	/* write old PGE again and flush TLBs */
-	native_write_cr4(cr4);
-}
-
 static inline void __native_flush_tlb_global(void)
 {
-	unsigned long flags;
+	unsigned long cr4, flags;
 
 	if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_INVPCID)) {
 		/*
@@ -277,7 +266,11 @@ static inline void __native_flush_tlb_gl
 	 */
 	raw_local_irq_save(flags);
 
-	__native_flush_tlb_global_irq_disabled();
+	cr4 = this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.cr4);
+	/* toggle PGE */
+	native_write_cr4(cr4 ^ X86_CR4_PGE);
+	/* write old PGE again and flush TLBs */
+	native_write_cr4(cr4);
 
 	raw_local_irq_restore(flags);
 }
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c
@@ -565,15 +565,6 @@ static void print_ucode(struct ucode_cpu
 }
 #else
 
-/*
- * Flush global tlb. We only do this in x86_64 where paging has been enabled
- * already and PGE should be enabled as well.
- */
-static inline void flush_tlb_early(void)
-{
-	__native_flush_tlb_global_irq_disabled();
-}
-
 static inline void print_ucode(struct ucode_cpu_info *uci)
 {
 	struct microcode_intel *mc;
@@ -602,10 +593,6 @@ static int apply_microcode_early(struct
 	if (rev != mc->hdr.rev)
 		return -1;
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
-	/* Flush global tlb. This is precaution. */
-	flush_tlb_early();
-#endif
 	uci->cpu_sig.rev = rev;
 
 	if (early)


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from peterz@infradead.org are

queue-4.14/x86-entry-rename-sysenter_stack-to-cpu_entry_area_entry_stack.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-put-mmu-to-hardware-asid-translation-in-one-place.patch
queue-4.14/x86-vsyscall-64-explicitly-set-_page_user-in-the-pagetable-hierarchy.patch
queue-4.14/x86-uv-use-the-right-tlb-flush-api.patch
queue-4.14/x86-decoder-fix-and-update-the-opcodes-map.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-dump_pagetables-check-page_present-for-real.patch
queue-4.14/x86-ldt-prevent-ldt-inheritance-on-exec.patch
queue-4.14/x86-microcode-dont-abuse-the-tlb-flush-interface.patch
queue-4.14/x86-doc-remove-obvious-weirdnesses-from-the-x86-mm-layout-documentation.patch
queue-4.14/init-invoke-init_espfix_bsp-from-mm_init.patch
queue-4.14/x86-cpu_entry_area-move-it-to-a-separate-unit.patch
queue-4.14/x86-vsyscall-64-warn-and-fail-vsyscall-emulation-in-native-mode.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-create-asm-invpcid.h.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-remove-superfluous-barriers.patch
queue-4.14/x86-ldt-rework-locking.patch
queue-4.14/arch-mm-allow-arch_dup_mmap-to-fail.patch
queue-4.14/x86-cpu_entry_area-move-it-out-of-the-fixmap.patch
queue-4.14/tools-headers-sync-objtool-uapi-header.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-remove-hard-coded-asid-limit-checks.patch
queue-4.14/x86-kconfig-limit-nr_cpus-on-32-bit-to-a-sane-amount.patch
queue-4.14/objtool-fix-64-bit-build-on-32-bit-host.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-add-comments-to-clarify-which-tlb-flush-functions-are-supposed-to-flush-what.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-move-the-cr3-construction-functions-to-tlbflush.h.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-dump_pagetables-make-the-address-hints-correct-and-readable.patch
queue-4.14/x86-insn-eval-add-utility-functions-to-get-segment-selector.patch
queue-4.14/objtool-move-synced-files-to-their-original-relative-locations.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-use-__flush_tlb_one-for-kernel-memory.patch
queue-4.14/objtool-move-kernel-headers-code-sync-check-to-a-script.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-64-improve-the-memory-map-documentation.patch
queue-4.14/objtool-fix-cross-build.patch