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

x86/mm/pti: Add Kconfig

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-pti-add-kconfig.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 385ce0ea4c078517fa51c261882c4e72fba53005 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Dave Hansen dave.hansen@linux.intel.com Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 15:08:03 +0100 Subject: x86/mm/pti: Add Kconfig

From: Dave Hansen dave.hansen@linux.intel.com

commit 385ce0ea4c078517fa51c261882c4e72fba53005 upstream.

Finally allow CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION to be enabled.

PARAVIRT generally requires that the kernel not manage its own page tables. It also means that the hypervisor and kernel must agree wholeheartedly about what format the page tables are in and what they contain. PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION, unfortunately, changes the rules and they can not be used together.

I've seen conflicting feedback from maintainers lately about whether they want the Kconfig magic to go first or last in a patch series. It's going last here because the partially-applied series leads to kernels that can not boot in a bunch of cases. I did a run through the entire series with CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION=y to look for build errors, though.

[ tglx: Removed SMP and !PARAVIRT dependencies as they not longer exist ]

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen dave.hansen@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Cc: Boris Ostrovsky boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com Cc: Borislav Petkov bp@alien8.de Cc: Brian Gerst brgerst@gmail.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 Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- security/Kconfig | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

--- a/security/Kconfig +++ b/security/Kconfig @@ -54,6 +54,16 @@ config SECURITY_NETWORK implement socket and networking access controls. If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.

+config PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION + bool "Remove the kernel mapping in user mode" + depends on X86_64 && !UML + help + This feature reduces the number of hardware side channels by + ensuring that the majority of kernel addresses are not mapped + into userspace. + + See Documentation/x86/pagetable-isolation.txt for more details. + config SECURITY_INFINIBAND bool "Infiniband Security Hooks" depends on SECURITY && INFINIBAND

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dave.hansen@linux.intel.com are

queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-allow-nx-poison-to-be-set-in-p4d-pgd.patch queue-4.14/x86-dumpstack-indicate-in-oops-whether-pti-is-configured-and-enabled.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-clarify-the-whole-asid-kernel-pcid-user-pcid-naming.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-abstract-switching-cr3.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-optimize-restore_cr3.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-force-entry-through-trampoline-when-pti-active.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-align-entry-text-section-to-pmd-boundary.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-64-make-a-full-pgd-entry-size-hole-in-the-memory-map.patch queue-4.14/x86-cpu_entry_area-add-debugstore-entries-to-cpu_entry_area.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-share-entry-text-pmd.patch queue-4.14/x86-ldt-make-the-ldt-mapping-ro.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-dump_pagetables-check-user-space-page-table-for-wx-pages.patch queue-4.14/x86-pti-map-the-vsyscall-page-if-needed.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-disable-global-pages-if-page_table_isolation-y.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-dump_pagetables-allow-dumping-current-pagetables.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-add-infrastructure-for-page-table-isolation.patch queue-4.14/x86-cpufeatures-add-x86_bug_cpu_insecure.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-use-fix-pcid-to-optimize-user-kernel-switches.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-use-invpcid-for-__native_flush_tlb_single.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-prepare-the-x86-entry-assembly-code-for-entry-exit-cr3-switching.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-allow-flushing-for-future-asid-switches.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-add-kconfig.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-add-mapping-helper-functions.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-map-espfix-into-user-space.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-share-cpu_entry_area-with-user-space-page-tables.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-add-functions-to-clone-kernel-pmds.patch queue-4.14/x86-pti-add-the-pti-cmdline-option-and-documentation.patch queue-4.14/x86-events-intel-ds-map-debug-buffers-in-cpu_entry_area.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-allocate-a-separate-user-pgd.patch queue-4.14/x86-pti-put-the-ldt-in-its-own-pgd-if-pti-is-on.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