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

x86/pti: Make unpoison of pgd for trusted boot work for real

to the 4.4-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-make-unpoison-of-pgd-for-trusted-boot-work-for-real.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 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 445b69e3b75e42362a5bdc13c8b8f61599e2228a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Dave Hansen dave.hansen@linux.intel.com Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 14:49:39 -0800 Subject: x86/pti: Make unpoison of pgd for trusted boot work for real

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

commit 445b69e3b75e42362a5bdc13c8b8f61599e2228a upstream.

The inital fix for trusted boot and PTI potentially misses the pgd clearing if pud_alloc() sets a PGD. It probably works in *practice* because for two adjacent calls to map_tboot_page() that share a PGD entry, the first will clear NX, *then* allocate and set the PGD (without NX clear). The second call will *not* allocate but will clear the NX bit.

Defer the NX clearing to a point after it is known that all top-level allocations have occurred. Add a comment to clarify why.

[ tglx: Massaged changelog ]

[hughd notes: I have not tested tboot, but this looks to me as necessary and as safe in old-Kaiser backports as it is upstream; I'm not submitting the commit-to-be-fixed 262b6b30087, since it was undone by 445b69e3b75e, and makes conflict trouble because of 5-level's p4d versus 4-level's pgd.]

Fixes: 262b6b30087 ("x86/tboot: Unbreak tboot with PTI enabled") Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen dave.hansen@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli aarcange@redhat.com Cc: Jon Masters jcm@redhat.com Cc: "Tim Chen" tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com Cc: gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: ning.sun@intel.com Cc: tboot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: andi@firstfloor.org Cc: luto@kernel.org Cc: law@redhat.com Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: gregkh@linux-foundation.org Cc: dwmw@amazon.co.uk Cc: nickc@redhat.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180110224939.2695CD47@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- arch/x86/kernel/tboot.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/tboot.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tboot.c @@ -140,6 +140,16 @@ static int map_tboot_page(unsigned long return -1; set_pte_at(&tboot_mm, vaddr, pte, pfn_pte(pfn, prot)); pte_unmap(pte); + + /* + * PTI poisons low addresses in the kernel page tables in the + * name of making them unusable for userspace. To execute + * code at such a low address, the poison must be cleared. + * + * Note: 'pgd' actually gets set in pud_alloc(). + */ + pgd->pgd &= ~_PAGE_NX; + return 0; }

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

queue-4.4/x86-pti-make-unpoison-of-pgd-for-trusted-boot-work-for-real.patch