Hi Greg,
On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 08:36:42PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 05:28:11PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
From: Joerg Roedel jroedel@suse.de
Backport commits from upstream to fix a data corruption issue that gets exposed when using PTI on x86-32.
Please consider them for inclusion into stable-5.2.
Thanks for these. Based on the Fixes: tags on the commits, I've taken them all the way back to 4.4.y.
Thank you! The problem almost only exposes itself when PTI on x86-32 is enabled (which was merged in 4.19), so I only backported down to that kernel.
But it is right that it might be possible to trigger the problem on older kernels too, e.g. in some 32bit XEN-pv configurations that use same PAE page-table structures as the PTI code for 32bit.
So thanks for picking the fixes up for the older kernels too.
Regards,
Joerg