Patch "x86/mm/pti: Share cpu_entry_area with user space page tables" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

Patch "x86/mm/pti: Share cpu_entry_area with user space page tables" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

[gregkh]

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

    x86/mm/pti: Share cpu_entry_area with user space page tables

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-mm-pti-share-cpu_entry_area-with-user-space-page-tables.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 f7cfbee91559ca7e3e961a00ffac921208a115ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 15:07:45 +0100
Subject: x86/mm/pti: Share cpu_entry_area with user space page tables

From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>

commit f7cfbee91559ca7e3e961a00ffac921208a115ad upstream.

Share the cpu entry area so the user space and kernel space page tables
have the same P4D page.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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: hughd@google.com
Cc: keescook@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/mm/pti.c |   25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c
@@ -265,6 +265,29 @@ pti_clone_pmds(unsigned long start, unsi
 }
 
 /*
+ * Clone a single p4d (i.e. a top-level entry on 4-level systems and a
+ * next-level entry on 5-level systems.
+ */
+static void __init pti_clone_p4d(unsigned long addr)
+{
+	p4d_t *kernel_p4d, *user_p4d;
+	pgd_t *kernel_pgd;
+
+	user_p4d = pti_user_pagetable_walk_p4d(addr);
+	kernel_pgd = pgd_offset_k(addr);
+	kernel_p4d = p4d_offset(kernel_pgd, addr);
+	*user_p4d = *kernel_p4d;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Clone the CPU_ENTRY_AREA into the user space visible page table.
+ */
+static void __init pti_clone_user_shared(void)
+{
+	pti_clone_p4d(CPU_ENTRY_AREA_BASE);
+}
+
+/*
  * Initialize kernel page table isolation
  */
 void __init pti_init(void)
@@ -273,4 +296,6 @@ void __init pti_init(void)
 		return;
 
 	pr_info("enabled\n");
+
+	pti_clone_user_shared();
 }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from luto@kernel.org are

queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-allow-nx-poison-to-be-set-in-p4d-pgd.patch
queue-4.14/x86-dumpstack-indicate-in-oops-whether-pti-is-configured-and-enabled.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-clarify-the-whole-asid-kernel-pcid-user-pcid-naming.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-abstract-switching-cr3.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-optimize-restore_cr3.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-force-entry-through-trampoline-when-pti-active.patch
queue-4.14/x86-entry-align-entry-text-section-to-pmd-boundary.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-64-make-a-full-pgd-entry-size-hole-in-the-memory-map.patch
queue-4.14/x86-cpu_entry_area-add-debugstore-entries-to-cpu_entry_area.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-share-entry-text-pmd.patch
queue-4.14/x86-ldt-make-the-ldt-mapping-ro.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-dump_pagetables-check-user-space-page-table-for-wx-pages.patch
queue-4.14/x86-pti-map-the-vsyscall-page-if-needed.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-disable-global-pages-if-page_table_isolation-y.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-dump_pagetables-allow-dumping-current-pagetables.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-add-infrastructure-for-page-table-isolation.patch
queue-4.14/x86-cpufeatures-add-x86_bug_cpu_insecure.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-use-fix-pcid-to-optimize-user-kernel-switches.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-use-invpcid-for-__native_flush_tlb_single.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-prepare-the-x86-entry-assembly-code-for-entry-exit-cr3-switching.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-allow-flushing-for-future-asid-switches.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-add-kconfig.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-add-mapping-helper-functions.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-map-espfix-into-user-space.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-share-cpu_entry_area-with-user-space-page-tables.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-add-functions-to-clone-kernel-pmds.patch
queue-4.14/x86-pti-add-the-pti-cmdline-option-and-documentation.patch
queue-4.14/x86-events-intel-ds-map-debug-buffers-in-cpu_entry_area.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-allocate-a-separate-user-pgd.patch
queue-4.14/x86-pti-put-the-ldt-in-its-own-pgd-if-pti-is-on.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-populate-user-pgd.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-dump_pagetables-add-page-table-directory-to-the-debugfs-vfs-hierarchy.patch