This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

[Variant 3/Meltdown] arm64: idmap: Use "awx" flags for .idmap.text .pushsection directives

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: arm64-idmap-use-awx-flags-for-.idmap.text-.pushsection-directives.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 foo@baz Tue Feb 13 17:25:10 CET 2018

From: Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 12:00:00 +0000 Subject: [Variant 3/Meltdown] arm64: idmap: Use "awx" flags for .idmap.text .pushsection directives

From: Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com

Commit 439e70e27a51 upstream.

The identity map is mapped as both writeable and executable by the SWAPPER_MM_MMUFLAGS and this is relied upon by the kpti code to manage a synchronisation flag. Update the .pushsection flags to reflect the actual mapping attributes.

Reported-by: Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas@arm.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/arm64/kernel/cpu-reset.S | 2 +- arch/arm64/kernel/head.S | 2 +- arch/arm64/kernel/sleep.S | 2 +- arch/arm64/mm/proc.S | 8 ++++---- 4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu-reset.S +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu-reset.S @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ #include <asm/virt.h>

.text -.pushsection .idmap.text, "ax" +.pushsection .idmap.text, "awx"

/* * __cpu_soft_restart(el2_switch, entry, arg0, arg1, arg2) - Helper for --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S @@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ ENDPROC(__primary_switched) * end early head section, begin head code that is also used for * hotplug and needs to have the same protections as the text region */ - .section ".idmap.text","ax" + .section ".idmap.text","awx"

ENTRY(kimage_vaddr) .quad _text - TEXT_OFFSET --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/sleep.S +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/sleep.S @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ ENTRY(__cpu_suspend_enter) ret ENDPROC(__cpu_suspend_enter)

- .pushsection ".idmap.text", "ax" + .pushsection ".idmap.text", "awx" ENTRY(cpu_resume) bl el2_setup // if in EL2 drop to EL1 cleanly bl __cpu_setup --- a/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ ENDPROC(cpu_do_suspend) * * x0: Address of context pointer */ - .pushsection ".idmap.text", "ax" + .pushsection ".idmap.text", "awx" ENTRY(cpu_do_resume) ldp x2, x3, [x0] ldp x4, x5, [x0, #16] @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ ENTRY(cpu_do_switch_mm) ret ENDPROC(cpu_do_switch_mm)

- .pushsection ".idmap.text", "ax" + .pushsection ".idmap.text", "awx"

.macro __idmap_cpu_set_reserved_ttbr1, tmp1, tmp2 adrp \tmp1, empty_zero_page @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ ENDPROC(idmap_cpu_replace_ttbr1) .popsection

#ifdef CONFIG_UNMAP_KERNEL_AT_EL0 - .pushsection ".idmap.text", "ax" + .pushsection ".idmap.text", "awx"

.macro __idmap_kpti_get_pgtable_ent, type dc cvac, cur_()\type()p // Ensure any existing dirty @@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ ENDPROC(idmap_kpti_install_ng_mappings) * Initialise the processor for turning the MMU on. Return in x0 the * value of the SCTLR_EL1 register. */ - .pushsection ".idmap.text", "ax" + .pushsection ".idmap.text", "awx" ENTRY(__cpu_setup) tlbi vmalle1 // Invalidate local TLB dsb nsh

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from will.deacon@arm.com are

queue-4.15/arm64-make-user_ds-an-inclusive-limit.patch queue-4.15/arm64-mm-remove-pre_ttbr0_update_workaround-for-falkor-erratum-e1003.patch queue-4.15/arm64-uaccess-don-t-bother-eliding-access_ok-checks-in-__-get-put-_user.patch queue-4.15/arm64-cpufeature-pass-capability-structure-to-enable-callback.patch queue-4.15/arm64-uaccess-mask-__user-pointers-for-__arch_-clear-copy_-_user.patch queue-4.15/arm64-mm-add-arm64_kernel_unmapped_at_el0-helper.patch queue-4.15/arm64-entry-reword-comment-about-post_ttbr_update_workaround.patch queue-4.15/arm64-kaslr-put-kernel-vectors-address-in-separate-data-page.patch queue-4.15/arm-arm64-smccc-make-function-identifiers-an-unsigned-quantity.patch queue-4.15/arm64-move-bp-hardening-to-check_and_switch_context.patch queue-4.15/arm-arm64-kvm-advertise-smccc-v1.1.patch queue-4.15/arm64-move-post_ttbr_update_workaround-to-c-code.patch queue-4.15/arm64-turn-on-kpti-only-on-cpus-that-need-it.patch queue-4.15/firmware-psci-expose-psci-conduit.patch queue-4.15/arm64-force-kpti-to-be-disabled-on-cavium-thunderx.patch queue-4.15/arm64-entry-apply-bp-hardening-for-high-priority-synchronous-exceptions.patch queue-4.15/arm64-kpti-fix-the-interaction-between-asid-switching-and-software-pan.patch queue-4.15/firmware-psci-expose-smccc-version-through-psci_ops.patch queue-4.15/arm64-mm-permit-transitioning-from-global-to-non-global-without-bbm.patch queue-4.15/arm64-mm-allocate-asids-in-pairs.patch queue-4.15/arm64-tls-avoid-unconditional-zeroing-of-tpidrro_el0-for-native-tasks.patch queue-4.15/arm64-use-ret-instruction-for-exiting-the-trampoline.patch queue-4.15/arm64-futex-mask-__user-pointers-prior-to-dereference.patch queue-4.15/arm64-entry-explicitly-pass-exception-level-to-kernel_ventry-macro.patch queue-4.15/arm64-implement-branch-predictor-hardening-for-affected-cortex-a-cpus.patch queue-4.15/arm64-kpti-make-use-of-ng-dependent-on-arm64_kernel_unmapped_at_el0.patch queue-4.15/arm-arm64-kvm-add-psci_version-helper.patch 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