Patch "x86/pti: Map the vsyscall page if needed" 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/pti: Map the vsyscall page if needed

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-pti-map-the-vsyscall-page-if-needed.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: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 07:56:42 -0800
Subject: x86/pti: Map the vsyscall page if needed

From: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>

commit 85900ea51577e31b186e523c8f4e068c79ecc7d3 upstream.

Make VSYSCALLs work fully in PTI mode by mapping them properly to the user space visible page tables.

[ tglx: Hide unused functions (Patch by Arnd Bergmann) ]

---
 arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c |    6 +--
 arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h       |    1 
 arch/x86/mm/pti.c                     |   65 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

@@ -344,14 +344,14 @@ int in_gate_area_no_mm(unsigned long add
  * vsyscalls but leave the page not present.  If so, we skip calling
  * this.
  */
-static void __init set_vsyscall_pgtable_user_bits(void)
+void __init set_vsyscall_pgtable_user_bits(pgd_t *root)
 {
 	pgd_t *pgd;
 	p4d_t *p4d;
 	pud_t *pud;
 	pmd_t *pmd;
 
-	pgd = pgd_offset_k(VSYSCALL_ADDR);
+	pgd = pgd_offset_pgd(root, VSYSCALL_ADDR);
 	set_pgd(pgd, __pgd(pgd_val(*pgd) | _PAGE_USER));
 	p4d = p4d_offset(pgd, VSYSCALL_ADDR);
 #if CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS >= 5

@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ void __init map_vsyscall(void)
 			     vsyscall_mode == NATIVE
 			     ? PAGE_KERNEL_VSYSCALL
 			     : PAGE_KERNEL_VVAR);
-		set_vsyscall_pgtable_user_bits();
+		set_vsyscall_pgtable_user_bits(swapper_pg_dir);
 	}
 
 	BUILD_BUG_ON((unsigned long)__fix_to_virt(VSYSCALL_PAGE) !=

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_VSYSCALL_EMULATION
 extern void map_vsyscall(void);
+extern void set_vsyscall_pgtable_user_bits(pgd_t *root);
 
 /*
  * Called on instruction fetch fault in vsyscall page.

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