This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/mm: Define _PAGE_TABLE using _KERNPG_TABLE
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-mm-define-_page_table-using-_kernpg_table.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 c7da092a1f243bfd1bfb4124f538e69e941882da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 11:20:28 +0100 Subject: x86/mm: Define _PAGE_TABLE using _KERNPG_TABLE
From: Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de
commit c7da092a1f243bfd1bfb4124f538e69e941882da upstream.
... so that the difference is obvious.
No functionality change.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de 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/20171103102028.20284-1-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h @@ -200,10 +200,9 @@ enum page_cache_mode {
#define _PAGE_ENC (_AT(pteval_t, sme_me_mask))
-#define _PAGE_TABLE (_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_RW | _PAGE_USER | \ - _PAGE_ACCESSED | _PAGE_DIRTY | _PAGE_ENC) #define _KERNPG_TABLE (_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_RW | _PAGE_ACCESSED | \ _PAGE_DIRTY | _PAGE_ENC) +#define _PAGE_TABLE (_KERNPG_TABLE | _PAGE_USER)
#define __PAGE_KERNEL_ENC (__PAGE_KERNEL | _PAGE_ENC) #define __PAGE_KERNEL_ENC_WP (__PAGE_KERNEL_WP | _PAGE_ENC)
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