This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.75 release. There are 39 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know.
Responses should be made by Fri Jan 5 19:50:44 UTC 2018. Anything received after that time might be too late.
The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.9.75-rc1.gz or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.9.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.9.75-rc1
Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org KPTI: Report when enabled
Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org KPTI: Rename to PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION
Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de x86/kaiser: Move feature detection up
Jiri Kosina jkosina@suse.cz kaiser: disabled on Xen PV
Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de x86/kaiser: Reenable PARAVIRT
Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/paravirt: Dont patch flush_tlb_single
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: kaiser_flush_tlb_on_return_to_user() check PCID
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: asm/tlbflush.h handle noPGE at lower level
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: drop is_atomic arg to kaiser_pagetable_walk()
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: use ALTERNATIVE instead of x86_cr3_pcid_noflush
Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de x86/kaiser: Check boottime cmdline params
Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de x86/kaiser: Rename and simplify X86_FEATURE_KAISER handling
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: add "nokaiser" boot option, using ALTERNATIVE
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: fix unlikely error in alloc_ldt_struct()
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: kaiser_remove_mapping() move along the pgd
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: paranoid_entry pass cr3 need to paranoid_exit
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: x86_cr3_pcid_noflush and x86_cr3_pcid_user
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: PCID 0 for kernel and 128 for user
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: load_new_mm_cr3() let SWITCH_USER_CR3 flush user
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: enhanced by kernel and user PCIDs
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: vmstat show NR_KAISERTABLE as nr_overhead
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: delete KAISER_REAL_SWITCH option
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: name that 0x1000 KAISER_SHADOW_PGD_OFFSET
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: cleanups while trying for gold link
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: align addition to x86/mm/Makefile
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: tidied up kaiser_add/remove_mapping slightly
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: tidied up asm/kaiser.h somewhat
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: ENOMEM if kaiser_pagetable_walk() NULL
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: fix perf crashes
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: fix regs to do_nmi() ifndef CONFIG_KAISER
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: KAISER depends on SMP
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: fix build and FIXME in alloc_ldt_struct()
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: stack map PAGE_SIZE at THREAD_SIZE-PAGE_SIZE
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: do not set _PAGE_NX on pgd_none
Dave Hansen dave.hansen@linux.intel.com kaiser: merged update
Richard Fellner richard.fellner@student.tugraz.at KAISER: Kernel Address Isolation
Tom Lendacky thomas.lendacky@amd.com x86/boot: Add early cmdline parsing for options with arguments
Neal Cardwell ncardwell@google.com tcp_bbr: reset long-term bandwidth sampling on loss recovery undo
Neal Cardwell ncardwell@google.com tcp_bbr: reset full pipe detection on loss recovery undo
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Diffstat:
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 8 + Makefile | 4 +- arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h | 1 + arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 163 ++++++++-- arch/x86/entry/entry_64_compat.S | 8 +- arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c | 57 +++- arch/x86/include/asm/cmdline.h | 2 + arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 4 + arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/hw_irq.h | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/kaiser.h | 141 +++++++++ arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h | 28 +- arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_64.h | 25 +- arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h | 29 +- arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 74 ++++- arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/processor-flags.h | 3 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 28 +- arch/x86/kernel/espfix_64.c | 10 + arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S | 35 ++- arch/x86/kernel/irqinit.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c | 25 +- arch/x86/kernel/paravirt_patch_64.c | 2 - arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 7 + arch/x86/kernel/tracepoint.c | 2 + arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 3 +- arch/x86/lib/cmdline.c | 105 +++++++ arch/x86/mm/Makefile | 4 +- arch/x86/mm/init.c | 2 +- arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 10 + arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c | 454 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c | 4 +- arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c | 63 +++- arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c | 12 +- arch/x86/mm/tlb.c | 39 ++- include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 7 + include/linux/kaiser.h | 52 ++++ include/linux/mmzone.h | 3 +- include/linux/percpu-defs.h | 32 +- init/main.c | 2 + kernel/fork.c | 6 + mm/vmstat.c | 1 + net/ipv4/tcp_bbr.c | 5 + security/Kconfig | 10 + tools/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 3 + 46 files changed, 1382 insertions(+), 101 deletions(-)