Patch "x86/boot/32: Fix UP boot on Quark and possibly other platforms" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

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

x86/boot/32: Fix UP boot on Quark and possibly other platforms

to the 4.9-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-boot-32-fix-up-boot-on-quark-and-possibly-other-platforms.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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: Mon, 8 May 2017 17:09:10 -0700
Subject: x86/boot/32: Fix UP boot on Quark and possibly other platforms

From: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>

commit d2b6dc61a8dd3c429609b993778cb54e75a5c5f0 upstream.

This partially reverts commit:

23b2a4ddebdd17f ("x86/boot/32: Defer resyncing initial_page_table until per-cpu is set up")

That commit had one definite bug and one potential bug. The definite bug is that setup_per_cpu_areas() uses a differnet generic implementation on UP kernels, so initial_page_table never got resynced. This was fine for access to percpu data (it's in the identity map on UP), but it breaks other users of initial_page_table. The potential bug is that helpers like efi_init() would be called before the tables were synced.

Avoid both problems by just syncing the page tables in setup_arch() *and* setup_per_cpu_areas().

---
 arch/x86/kernel/setup.c        |   15 +++++++++++++++
 arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c |   10 +++++-----
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

@@ -1200,6 +1200,21 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
 
 	kasan_init();
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
+	/* sync back kernel address range */
+	clone_pgd_range(initial_page_table + KERNEL_PGD_BOUNDARY,
+			swapper_pg_dir     + KERNEL_PGD_BOUNDARY,
+			KERNEL_PGD_PTRS);
+
+	/*
+	 * sync back low identity map too.  It is used for example
+	 * in the 32-bit EFI stub.
+	 */
+	clone_pgd_range(initial_page_table,
+			swapper_pg_dir     + KERNEL_PGD_BOUNDARY,
+			min(KERNEL_PGD_PTRS, KERNEL_PGD_BOUNDARY));
+#endif
+
 	tboot_probe();
 
 	map_vsyscall();

@@ -290,11 +290,11 @@ void __init setup_per_cpu_areas(void)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
 	/*
-	 * Sync back kernel address range.  We want to make sure that
-	 * all kernel mappings, including percpu mappings, are available
-	 * in the smpboot asm.  We can't reliably pick up percpu
-	 * mappings using vmalloc_fault(), because exception dispatch
-	 * needs percpu data.
+	 * Sync back kernel address range again.  We already did this in
+	 * setup_arch(), but percpu data also needs to be available in
+	 * the smpboot asm.  We can't reliably pick up percpu mappings
+	 * using vmalloc_fault(), because exception dispatch needs
+	 * percpu data.
 	 */
 	clone_pgd_range(initial_page_table + KERNEL_PGD_BOUNDARY,
 			swapper_pg_dir     + KERNEL_PGD_BOUNDARY,

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

queue-4.9/perf-tools-make-perf_event__synthesize_mmap_events-scale.patch queue-4.9/x86-mm-make-mmap-map_32bit-work-correctly.patch queue-4.9/x86-boot-32-defer-resyncing-initial_page_table-until-per-cpu-is-set-up.patch queue-4.9/x86-boot-32-fix-up-boot-on-quark-and-possibly-other-platforms.patch