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

x86/mm/pti: Map ESPFIX into user space

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-map-espfix-into-user-space.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 4b6bbe95b87966ba08999574db65c93c5e925a36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 22:08:18 +0100 Subject: x86/mm/pti: Map ESPFIX into user space

From: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org

commit 4b6bbe95b87966ba08999574db65c93c5e925a36 upstream.

Map the ESPFIX pages into user space when PTI is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: Borislav Petkov bp@alien8.de Cc: Brian Gerst brgerst@gmail.com Cc: Dave Hansen dave.hansen@linux.intel.com Cc: David Laight David.Laight@aculab.com Cc: H. Peter Anvin hpa@zytor.com Cc: Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com Cc: Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com Cc: Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- arch/x86/mm/pti.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c @@ -288,6 +288,16 @@ static void __init pti_clone_user_shared }

/* + * Clone the ESPFIX P4D into the user space visinble page table + */ +static void __init pti_setup_espfix64(void) +{ +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_ESPFIX64 + pti_clone_p4d(ESPFIX_BASE_ADDR); +#endif +} + +/* * Clone the populated PMDs of the entry and irqentry text and force it RO. */ static void __init pti_clone_entry_text(void) @@ -308,4 +318,5 @@ void __init pti_init(void)

pti_clone_user_shared(); pti_clone_entry_text(); + pti_setup_espfix64(); }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from luto@kernel.org 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