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

kaiser: ENOMEM if kaiser_pagetable_walk() NULL

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: kaiser-enomem-if-kaiser_pagetable_walk-null.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 foo@baz Wed Jan 3 20:37:21 CET 2018

From: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2017 18:48:02 -0700 Subject: kaiser: ENOMEM if kaiser_pagetable_walk() NULL

From: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com

kaiser_add_user_map() took no notice when kaiser_pagetable_walk() failed. And avoid its might_sleep() when atomic (though atomic at present unused).

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c @@ -98,11 +98,11 @@ static pte_t *kaiser_pagetable_walk(unsi pgd_t *pgd = native_get_shadow_pgd(pgd_offset_k(address)); gfp_t gfp = (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_ZERO);

- might_sleep(); if (is_atomic) { gfp &= ~GFP_KERNEL; gfp |= __GFP_HIGH | __GFP_ATOMIC; - } + } else + might_sleep();

if (pgd_none(*pgd)) { WARN_ONCE(1, "All shadow pgds should have been populated"); @@ -159,13 +159,17 @@ int kaiser_add_user_map(const void *__st unsigned long end_addr = PAGE_ALIGN(start_addr + size); unsigned long target_address;

- for (;address < end_addr; address += PAGE_SIZE) { + for (; address < end_addr; address += PAGE_SIZE) { target_address = get_pa_from_mapping(address); if (target_address == -1) { ret = -EIO; break; } pte = kaiser_pagetable_walk(address, false); + if (!pte) { + ret = -ENOMEM; + break; + } if (pte_none(*pte)) { set_pte(pte, __pte(flags | target_address)); } else {

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hughd@google.com are

queue-4.9/kaiser-vmstat-show-nr_kaisertable-as-nr_overhead.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-add-nokaiser-boot-option-using-alternative.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-fix-unlikely-error-in-alloc_ldt_struct.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-kaiser_flush_tlb_on_return_to_user-check-pcid.patch queue-4.9/x86-paravirt-dont-patch-flush_tlb_single.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-merged-update.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-delete-kaiser_real_switch-option.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-kaiser_remove_mapping-move-along-the-pgd.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-fix-perf-crashes.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-drop-is_atomic-arg-to-kaiser_pagetable_walk.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-load_new_mm_cr3-let-switch_user_cr3-flush-user.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-enhanced-by-kernel-and-user-pcids.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-x86_cr3_pcid_noflush-and-x86_cr3_pcid_user.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-align-addition-to-x86-mm-makefile.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-use-alternative-instead-of-x86_cr3_pcid_noflush.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-stack-map-page_size-at-thread_size-page_size.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-name-that-0x1000-kaiser_shadow_pgd_offset.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-fix-regs-to-do_nmi-ifndef-config_kaiser.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-do-not-set-_page_nx-on-pgd_none.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-tidied-up-asm-kaiser.h-somewhat.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-cleanups-while-trying-for-gold-link.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-tidied-up-kaiser_add-remove_mapping-slightly.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-fix-build-and-fixme-in-alloc_ldt_struct.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-kernel-address-isolation.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-enomem-if-kaiser_pagetable_walk-null.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-asm-tlbflush.h-handle-nopge-at-lower-level.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-paranoid_entry-pass-cr3-need-to-paranoid_exit.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-kaiser-depends-on-smp.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-pcid-0-for-kernel-and-128-for-user.patch