[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "x86/espfix/xen: Fix allocation of pages for paravirt page tables" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Thu Aug 7 13:32:39 UTC 2014


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    x86/espfix/xen: Fix allocation of pages for paravirt page tables

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From aca64026c5b3ef57f180fc8168fa0668e95a0b00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky at oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 13:18:18 -0400
Subject: x86/espfix/xen: Fix allocation of pages for paravirt page tables

commit 8762e5092828c4dc0f49da5a47a644c670df77f3 upstream.

init_espfix_ap() is currently off by one level when informing hypervisor
that allocated pages will be used for ministacks' page tables.

The most immediate effect of this on a PV guest is that if
'stack_page = __get_free_page()' returns a non-zeroed-out page the hypervisor
will refuse to use it for a page table (which it shouldn't be anyway). This will
result in warnings by both Xen and Linux.

More importantly, a subsequent write to that page (again, by a PV guest) is
likely to result in fatal page fault.

Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky at oracle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1404926298-5565-1-git-send-email-boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/espfix_64.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/espfix_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/espfix_64.c
index 6afbb16e9b79..94d857fb1033 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/espfix_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/espfix_64.c
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ void init_espfix_ap(void)
 	if (!pud_present(pud)) {
 		pmd_p = (pmd_t *)__get_free_page(PGALLOC_GFP);
 		pud = __pud(__pa(pmd_p) | (PGTABLE_PROT & ptemask));
-		paravirt_alloc_pud(&init_mm, __pa(pmd_p) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+		paravirt_alloc_pmd(&init_mm, __pa(pmd_p) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
 		for (n = 0; n < ESPFIX_PUD_CLONES; n++)
 			set_pud(&pud_p[n], pud);
 	}
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ void init_espfix_ap(void)
 	if (!pmd_present(pmd)) {
 		pte_p = (pte_t *)__get_free_page(PGALLOC_GFP);
 		pmd = __pmd(__pa(pte_p) | (PGTABLE_PROT & ptemask));
-		paravirt_alloc_pmd(&init_mm, __pa(pte_p) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+		paravirt_alloc_pte(&init_mm, __pa(pte_p) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
 		for (n = 0; n < ESPFIX_PMD_CLONES; n++)
 			set_pmd(&pmd_p[n], pmd);
 	}
@@ -193,7 +193,6 @@ void init_espfix_ap(void)
 	pte_p = pte_offset_kernel(&pmd, addr);
 	stack_page = (void *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);
 	pte = __pte(__pa(stack_page) | (__PAGE_KERNEL_RO & ptemask));
-	paravirt_alloc_pte(&init_mm, __pa(stack_page) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
 	for (n = 0; n < ESPFIX_PTE_CLONES; n++)
 		set_pte(&pte_p[n*PTE_STRIDE], pte);

--
1.9.1





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