This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/entry/64: Stop initializing TSS.sp0 at boot
to the 4.14-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: x86-entry-64-stop-initializing-tss.sp0-at-boot.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 20bb83443ea79087b5e5f8dab4e9d80bb9bf7acb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 00:59:13 -0700 Subject: x86/entry/64: Stop initializing TSS.sp0 at boot
From: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org
commit 20bb83443ea79087b5e5f8dab4e9d80bb9bf7acb upstream.
In my quest to get rid of thread_struct::sp0, I want to clean up or remove all of its readers. Two of them are in cpu_init() (32-bit and 64-bit), and they aren't needed. This is because we never enter userspace at all on the threads that CPUs are initialized in.
Poison the initial TSS.sp0 and stop initializing it on CPU init.
The comment text mostly comes from Dave Hansen. Thanks!
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Cc: Borislav Petkov bpetkov@suse.de Cc: Brian Gerst brgerst@gmail.com Cc: Dave Hansen dave.hansen@intel.com Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ee4a00540ad28c6cff475fbcc7769a4460acc861.1509609304... Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 13 ++++++++++--- arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 8 +++++++- 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c @@ -1570,9 +1570,13 @@ void cpu_init(void) initialize_tlbstate_and_flush(); enter_lazy_tlb(&init_mm, me);
- load_sp0(current->thread.sp0); + /* + * Initialize the TSS. Don't bother initializing sp0, as the initial + * task never enters user mode. + */ set_tss_desc(cpu, t); load_TR_desc(); + load_mm_ldt(&init_mm);
clear_all_debug_regs(); @@ -1594,7 +1598,6 @@ void cpu_init(void) int cpu = smp_processor_id(); struct task_struct *curr = current; struct tss_struct *t = &per_cpu(cpu_tss, cpu); - struct thread_struct *thread = &curr->thread;
wait_for_master_cpu(cpu);
@@ -1625,9 +1628,13 @@ void cpu_init(void) initialize_tlbstate_and_flush(); enter_lazy_tlb(&init_mm, curr);
- load_sp0(thread->sp0); + /* + * Initialize the TSS. Don't bother initializing sp0, as the initial + * task never enters user mode. + */ set_tss_desc(cpu, t); load_TR_desc(); + load_mm_ldt(&init_mm);
t->x86_tss.io_bitmap_base = offsetof(struct tss_struct, io_bitmap); --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c @@ -49,7 +49,13 @@ */ __visible DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(struct tss_struct, cpu_tss) = { .x86_tss = { - .sp0 = TOP_OF_INIT_STACK, + /* + * .sp0 is only used when entering ring 0 from a lower + * privilege level. Since the init task never runs anything + * but ring 0 code, there is no need for a valid value here. + * Poison it. + */ + .sp0 = (1UL << (BITS_PER_LONG-1)) + 1, #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 .ss0 = __KERNEL_DS, .ss1 = __KERNEL_CS,
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from luto@kernel.org are
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