From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
jgross@suse.com, luto@kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org,
tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>, <stable-commits@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Patch "x86/vsyscall/64: Use proper accessor to update P4D entry" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 20:50:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <152200384811966@kroah.com> (raw)
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/vsyscall/64: Use proper accessor to update P4D entry
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-vsyscall-64-use-proper-accessor-to-update-p4d-entry.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 31ad7f8e7dc94d3b85ccf9b6141ce6dfd35a1781 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 10:31:54 -0400
Subject: x86/vsyscall/64: Use proper accessor to update P4D entry
From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
commit 31ad7f8e7dc94d3b85ccf9b6141ce6dfd35a1781 upstream.
Writing to it directly does not work for Xen PV guests.
Fixes: 49275fef986a ("x86/vsyscall/64: Explicitly set _PAGE_USER in the pagetable hierarchy")
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180319143154.3742-1-boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ void __init set_vsyscall_pgtable_user_bi
set_pgd(pgd, __pgd(pgd_val(*pgd) | _PAGE_USER));
p4d = p4d_offset(pgd, VSYSCALL_ADDR);
#if CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS >= 5
- p4d->p4d |= _PAGE_USER;
+ set_p4d(p4d, __p4d(p4d_val(*p4d) | _PAGE_USER));
#endif
pud = pud_offset(p4d, VSYSCALL_ADDR);
set_pud(pud, __pud(pud_val(*pud) | _PAGE_USER));
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com are
queue-4.14/x86-vsyscall-64-use-proper-accessor-to-update-p4d-entry.patch
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