Patch "x86/mm/pti: Fix PTI comment in entry_SYSCALL_64()" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

Patch "x86/mm/pti: Fix PTI comment in entry_SYSCALL_64()" 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: Fix PTI comment in entry_SYSCALL_64()

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-fix-pti-comment-in-entry_syscall_64.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 14b1fcc62043729d12e8ae00f8297ab2ffe9fa91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 09:06:38 -0800
Subject: x86/mm/pti: Fix PTI comment in entry_SYSCALL_64()

From: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>

commit 14b1fcc62043729d12e8ae00f8297ab2ffe9fa91 upstream.

The comment is confusing since the path is taken when
CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION=y is disabled (while the comment says it is not
taken).

Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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>
Cc: nadav.amit@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180209170638.15161-1-namit@vmware.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ ENTRY(entry_SYSCALL_64)
 
 	swapgs
 	/*
-	 * This path is not taken when PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION is disabled so it
+	 * This path is only taken when PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION is disabled so it
 	 * is not required to switch CR3.
 	 */
 	movq	%rsp, PER_CPU_VAR(rsp_scratch)


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from namit@vmware.com are

queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-fix-pti-comment-in-entry_syscall_64.patch