Patch "x86/mm/pti: Allow NX poison to be set in p4d/pgd" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

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

x86/mm/pti: Allow NX poison to be set in p4d/pgd

to the 4.14-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:

     x86-mm-pti-allow-nx-poison-to-be-set-in-p4d-pgd.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 <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 15:07:38 +0100
Subject: x86/mm/pti: Allow NX poison to be set in p4d/pgd

From: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>

commit 1c4de1ff4fe50453b968579ee86fac3da80dd783 upstream.

With PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION the user portion of the kernel page tables is poisoned with the NX bit so if the entry code exits with the kernel page tables selected in CR3, userspace crashes.

But doing so trips the p4d/pgd_bad() checks. Make sure it does not do that.

---
 arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h |   14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -846,7 +846,12 @@ static inline pud_t *pud_offset(p4d_t *p
 
 static inline int p4d_bad(p4d_t p4d)
 {
-	return (p4d_flags(p4d) & ~(_KERNPG_TABLE | _PAGE_USER)) != 0;
+	unsigned long ignore_flags = _KERNPG_TABLE | _PAGE_USER;
+
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION))
+		ignore_flags |= _PAGE_NX;
+
+	return (p4d_flags(p4d) & ~ignore_flags) != 0;
 }
 #endif  /* CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS > 3 */
 

@@ -880,7 +885,12 @@ static inline p4d_t *p4d_offset(pgd_t *p
 
 static inline int pgd_bad(pgd_t pgd)
 {
-	return (pgd_flags(pgd) & ~_PAGE_USER) != _KERNPG_TABLE;
+	unsigned long ignore_flags = _PAGE_USER;
+
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION))
+		ignore_flags |= _PAGE_NX;
+
+	return (pgd_flags(pgd) & ~ignore_flags) != _KERNPG_TABLE;
 }
 
 static inline int pgd_none(pgd_t pgd)

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