This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/efi: Free efi_pgd with free_pages()
to the 4.15-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-efi-free-efi_pgd-with-free_pages.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 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 06ace26f4e6fcf747e890a39193be811777a048a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Waiman Long longman@redhat.com Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 15:18:53 -0400 Subject: x86/efi: Free efi_pgd with free_pages()
From: Waiman Long longman@redhat.com
commit 06ace26f4e6fcf747e890a39193be811777a048a upstream.
The efi_pgd is allocated as PGD_ALLOCATION_ORDER pages and therefore must also be freed as PGD_ALLOCATION_ORDER pages with free_pages().
Fixes: d9e9a6418065 ("x86/mm/pti: Allocate a separate user PGD") Signed-off-by: Waiman Long longman@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org Cc: Dave Hansen dave.hansen@linux.intel.com Cc: Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1521746333-19593-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.c... Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c @@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ int __init efi_alloc_page_tables(void) if (!pud) { if (CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS > 4) free_page((unsigned long) pgd_page_vaddr(*pgd)); - free_page((unsigned long)efi_pgd); + free_pages((unsigned long)efi_pgd, PGD_ALLOCATION_ORDER); return -ENOMEM; }
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from longman@redhat.com are
queue-4.15/x86-efi-free-efi_pgd-with-free_pages.patch