Patch "[Variant 3/Meltdown] perf: arm_spe: Fail device probe when arm64_kernel_unmapped_at_el0()" has been added to the 4.15-stable tree

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

[Variant 3/Meltdown] perf: arm_spe: Fail device probe when arm64_kernel_unmapped_at_el0()

to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
perf-arm_spe-fail-device-probe-when-arm64_kernel_unmapped_at_el0.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 <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 15:49:53 +0000
Subject: [Variant 3/Meltdown] perf: arm_spe: Fail device probe when arm64_kernel_unmapped_at_el0()

From: Will Deacon <[email protected]>

Commit 7a4a0c1555b8 upstream.

When running with the kernel unmapped whilst at EL0, the virtually-addressed SPE buffer is also unmapped, which can lead to buffer faults if userspace profiling is enabled and potentially also when writing back kernel samples unless an expensive drain operation is performed on exception return.

For now, fail the SPE driver probe when arm64_kernel_unmapped_at_el0().

---
 drivers/perf/arm_spe_pmu.c |    9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

@@ -1164,6 +1164,15 @@ static int arm_spe_pmu_device_dt_probe(s
 	struct arm_spe_pmu *spe_pmu;
 	struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
 
+	/*
+	 * If kernelspace is unmapped when running at EL0, then the SPE
+	 * buffer will fault and prematurely terminate the AUX session.
+	 */
+	if (arm64_kernel_unmapped_at_el0()) {
+		dev_warn_once(dev, "profiling buffer inaccessible. Try passing \"kpti=off\" on the kernel command line\n");
+		return -EPERM;
+	}
+
 	spe_pmu = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*spe_pmu), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!spe_pmu) {
 		dev_err(dev, "failed to allocate spe_pmu\n");

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

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