This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/vsyscall/64: Use proper accessor to update P4D entry
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-vsyscall-64-use-proper-accessor-to-update-p4d-entry.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 31ad7f8e7dc94d3b85ccf9b6141ce6dfd35a1781 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Boris Ostrovsky boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 10:31:54 -0400 Subject: x86/vsyscall/64: Use proper accessor to update P4D entry
From: Boris Ostrovsky boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
commit 31ad7f8e7dc94d3b85ccf9b6141ce6dfd35a1781 upstream.
Writing to it directly does not work for Xen PV guests.
Fixes: 49275fef986a ("x86/vsyscall/64: Explicitly set _PAGE_USER in the pagetable hierarchy") Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180319143154.3742-1-boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c @@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ void __init set_vsyscall_pgtable_user_bi set_pgd(pgd, __pgd(pgd_val(*pgd) | _PAGE_USER)); p4d = p4d_offset(pgd, VSYSCALL_ADDR); #if CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS >= 5 - p4d->p4d |= _PAGE_USER; + set_p4d(p4d, __p4d(p4d_val(*p4d) | _PAGE_USER)); #endif pud = pud_offset(p4d, VSYSCALL_ADDR); set_pud(pud, __pud(pud_val(*pud) | _PAGE_USER));
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com are
queue-4.15/x86-vsyscall-64-use-proper-accessor-to-update-p4d-entry.patch