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

x86/pti: Add the pti= cmdline option and documentation

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-pti-add-the-pti-cmdline-option-and-documentation.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 41f4c20b57a4890ea7f56ff8717cc83fefb8d537 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 14:39:52 +0100 Subject: x86/pti: Add the pti= cmdline option and documentation

From: Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de

commit 41f4c20b57a4890ea7f56ff8717cc83fefb8d537 upstream.

Keep the "nopti" optional for traditional reasons.

[ tglx: Don't allow force on when running on XEN PV and made 'on' printout conditional ]

Requested-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Cc: Andy Lutomirsky luto@kernel.org Cc: Boris Ostrovsky boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com Cc: Borislav Petkov bp@alien8.de Cc: Brian Gerst brgerst@gmail.com Cc: Dave Hansen dave.hansen@intel.com Cc: Dave Hansen dave.hansen@linux.intel.com Cc: David Laight David.Laight@aculab.com Cc: Denys Vlasenko dvlasenk@redhat.com Cc: Eduardo Valentin eduval@amazon.com Cc: Greg KH gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: H. Peter Anvin hpa@zytor.com Cc: Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com Cc: Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com Cc: aliguori@amazon.com Cc: daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at Cc: hughd@google.com Cc: keescook@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171212133952.10177-1-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 +++++ arch/x86/mm/pti.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -3255,6 +3255,12 @@ pt. [PARIDE] See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.

+ pti= [X86_64] + Control user/kernel address space isolation: + on - enable + off - disable + auto - default setting + pty.legacy_count= [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in default number. --- a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c @@ -54,21 +54,45 @@ static void __init pti_print_if_insecure pr_info("%s\n", reason); }

+static void __init pti_print_if_secure(const char *reason) +{ + if (!boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_CPU_INSECURE)) + pr_info("%s\n", reason); +} + void __init pti_check_boottime_disable(void) { + char arg[5]; + int ret; + if (hypervisor_is_type(X86_HYPER_XEN_PV)) { pti_print_if_insecure("disabled on XEN PV."); return; }

+ ret = cmdline_find_option(boot_command_line, "pti", arg, sizeof(arg)); + if (ret > 0) { + if (ret == 3 && !strncmp(arg, "off", 3)) { + pti_print_if_insecure("disabled on command line."); + return; + } + if (ret == 2 && !strncmp(arg, "on", 2)) { + pti_print_if_secure("force enabled on command line."); + goto enable; + } + if (ret == 4 && !strncmp(arg, "auto", 4)) + goto autosel; + } + if (cmdline_find_option_bool(boot_command_line, "nopti")) { pti_print_if_insecure("disabled on command line."); return; }

+autosel: if (!boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_CPU_INSECURE)) return; - +enable: setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_PTI); }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bp@suse.de are

queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-allow-nx-poison-to-be-set-in-p4d-pgd.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-force-entry-through-trampoline-when-pti-active.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-disable-global-pages-if-page_table_isolation-y.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-add-infrastructure-for-page-table-isolation.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-prepare-the-x86-entry-assembly-code-for-entry-exit-cr3-switching.patch queue-4.14/x86-pti-add-the-pti-cmdline-option-and-documentation.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-allocate-a-separate-user-pgd.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-populate-user-pgd.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-dump_pagetables-add-page-table-directory-to-the-debugfs-vfs-hierarchy.patch