Patch "x86/kasan: Clear kasan_zero_page after TLB flush" 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/kasan: Clear kasan_zero_page after TLB flush

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-kasan-clear-kasan_zero_page-after-tlb-flush.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 69e0210fd01ff157d332102219aaf5c26ca8069b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 15:51:18 +0300
Subject: x86/kasan: Clear kasan_zero_page after TLB flush

From: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>

commit 69e0210fd01ff157d332102219aaf5c26ca8069b upstream.

Currently we clear kasan_zero_page before __flush_tlb_all(). This
works with current implementation of native_flush_tlb[_global]()
because it doesn't cause do any writes to kasan shadow memory.
But any subtle change made in native_flush_tlb*() could break this.
Also current code seems doesn't work for paravirt guests (lguest).

Only after the TLB flush we can be sure that kasan_zero_page is not
used as early shadow anymore (instrumented code will not write to it).
So it should cleared it only after the TLB flush.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452516679-32040-2-git-send-email-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/mm/kasan_init_64.c |   11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/mm/kasan_init_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/kasan_init_64.c
@@ -121,11 +121,16 @@ void __init kasan_init(void)
 	kasan_populate_zero_shadow(kasan_mem_to_shadow((void *)MODULES_END),
 			(void *)KASAN_SHADOW_END);
 
-	memset(kasan_zero_page, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
-
 	load_cr3(init_level4_pgt);
 	__flush_tlb_all();
-	init_task.kasan_depth = 0;
 
+	/*
+	 * kasan_zero_page has been used as early shadow memory, thus it may
+	 * contain some garbage. Now we can clear it, since after the TLB flush
+	 * no one should write to it.
+	 */
+	memset(kasan_zero_page, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
+
+	init_task.kasan_depth = 0;
 	pr_info("KernelAddressSanitizer initialized\n");
 }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from aryabinin@virtuozzo.com are

queue-4.4/x86-kasan-clear-kasan_zero_page-after-tlb-flush.patch
queue-4.4/x86-boot-add-early-cmdline-parsing-for-options-with-arguments.patch