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

kaiser: tidied up asm/kaiser.h somewhat

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-tidied-up-asm-kaiser.h-somewhat.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 19:18:07 -0700 Subject: kaiser: tidied up asm/kaiser.h somewhat

From: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com

Mainly deleting a surfeit of blank lines, and reflowing header comment.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/x86/include/asm/kaiser.h | 32 +++++++++++++------------------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kaiser.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kaiser.h @@ -1,15 +1,17 @@ #ifndef _ASM_X86_KAISER_H #define _ASM_X86_KAISER_H - -/* This file includes the definitions for the KAISER feature. - * KAISER is a counter measure against x86_64 side channel attacks on the kernel virtual memory. - * It has a shodow-pgd for every process. the shadow-pgd has a minimalistic kernel-set mapped, - * but includes the whole user memory. Within a kernel context switch, or when an interrupt is handled, - * the pgd is switched to the normal one. When the system switches to user mode, the shadow pgd is enabled. - * By this, the virtual memory chaches are freed, and the user may not attack the whole kernel memory. +/* + * This file includes the definitions for the KAISER feature. + * KAISER is a counter measure against x86_64 side channel attacks on + * the kernel virtual memory. It has a shadow pgd for every process: the + * shadow pgd has a minimalistic kernel-set mapped, but includes the whole + * user memory. Within a kernel context switch, or when an interrupt is handled, + * the pgd is switched to the normal one. When the system switches to user mode, + * the shadow pgd is enabled. By this, the virtual memory caches are freed, + * and the user may not attack the whole kernel memory. * - * A minimalistic kernel mapping holds the parts needed to be mapped in user mode, as the entry/exit functions - * of the user space, or the stacks. + * A minimalistic kernel mapping holds the parts needed to be mapped in user + * mode, such as the entry/exit functions of the user space, or the stacks. */ #ifdef __ASSEMBLY__ #ifdef CONFIG_KAISER @@ -48,13 +50,10 @@ _SWITCH_TO_KERNEL_CR3 %rax movq PER_CPU_VAR(unsafe_stack_register_backup), %rax .endm

- .macro SWITCH_USER_CR3_NO_STACK - movq %rax, PER_CPU_VAR(unsafe_stack_register_backup) _SWITCH_TO_USER_CR3 %rax movq PER_CPU_VAR(unsafe_stack_register_backup), %rax - .endm

#else /* CONFIG_KAISER */ @@ -72,7 +71,6 @@ movq PER_CPU_VAR(unsafe_stack_register_b

#else /* __ASSEMBLY__ */

- #ifdef CONFIG_KAISER /* * Upon kernel/user mode switch, it may happen that the address @@ -80,7 +78,6 @@ movq PER_CPU_VAR(unsafe_stack_register_b * stored. To change the address space, another register is * needed. A register therefore has to be stored/restored. */ - DECLARE_PER_CPU_USER_MAPPED(unsigned long, unsafe_stack_register_backup);

/** @@ -95,7 +92,6 @@ DECLARE_PER_CPU_USER_MAPPED(unsigned lon */ extern int kaiser_add_mapping(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size, unsigned long flags);

- /** * kaiser_remove_mapping - unmap a virtual memory part of the shadow mapping * @addr: the start address of the range @@ -104,12 +100,12 @@ extern int kaiser_add_mapping(unsigned l extern void kaiser_remove_mapping(unsigned long start, unsigned long size);

/** - * kaiser_initialize_mapping - Initalize the shadow mapping + * kaiser_init - Initialize the shadow mapping * * Most parts of the shadow mapping can be mapped upon boot * time. Only per-process things like the thread stacks * or a new LDT have to be mapped at runtime. These boot- - * time mappings are permanent and nevertunmapped. + * time mappings are permanent and never unmapped. */ extern void kaiser_init(void);

@@ -117,6 +113,4 @@ extern void kaiser_init(void);

#endif /* __ASSEMBLY */

- - #endif /* _ASM_X86_KAISER_H */

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