4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Hugh Dickins <hu...@google.com> Mainly deleting a surfeit of blank lines, and reflowing header comment. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hu...@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- arch/x86/include/asm/kaiser.h | 32 +++++++++++++------------------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kaiser.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kaiser.h @@ -1,15 +1,17 @@ #ifndef _ASM_X86_KAISER_H #define _ASM_X86_KAISER_H - -/* This file includes the definitions for the KAISER feature. - * KAISER is a counter measure against x86_64 side channel attacks on the kernel virtual memory. - * It has a shodow-pgd for every process. the shadow-pgd has a minimalistic kernel-set mapped, - * but includes the whole user memory. Within a kernel context switch, or when an interrupt is handled, - * the pgd is switched to the normal one. When the system switches to user mode, the shadow pgd is enabled. - * By this, the virtual memory chaches are freed, and the user may not attack the whole kernel memory. +/* + * This file includes the definitions for the KAISER feature. + * KAISER is a counter measure against x86_64 side channel attacks on + * the kernel virtual memory. It has a shadow pgd for every process: the + * shadow pgd has a minimalistic kernel-set mapped, but includes the whole + * user memory. Within a kernel context switch, or when an interrupt is handled, + * the pgd is switched to the normal one. When the system switches to user mode, + * the shadow pgd is enabled. By this, the virtual memory caches are freed, + * and the user may not attack the whole kernel memory. * - * A minimalistic kernel mapping holds the parts needed to be mapped in user mode, as the entry/exit functions - * of the user space, or the stacks. + * A minimalistic kernel mapping holds the parts needed to be mapped in user + * mode, such as the entry/exit functions of the user space, or the stacks. */ #ifdef __ASSEMBLY__ #ifdef CONFIG_KAISER @@ -48,13 +50,10 @@ _SWITCH_TO_KERNEL_CR3 %rax movq PER_CPU_VAR(unsafe_stack_register_backup), %rax .endm - .macro SWITCH_USER_CR3_NO_STACK - movq %rax, PER_CPU_VAR(unsafe_stack_register_backup) _SWITCH_TO_USER_CR3 %rax movq PER_CPU_VAR(unsafe_stack_register_backup), %rax - .endm #else /* CONFIG_KAISER */ @@ -72,7 +71,6 @@ movq PER_CPU_VAR(unsafe_stack_register_b #else /* __ASSEMBLY__ */ - #ifdef CONFIG_KAISER /* * Upon kernel/user mode switch, it may happen that the address @@ -80,7 +78,6 @@ movq PER_CPU_VAR(unsafe_stack_register_b * stored. To change the address space, another register is * needed. A register therefore has to be stored/restored. */ - DECLARE_PER_CPU_USER_MAPPED(unsigned long, unsafe_stack_register_backup); /** @@ -95,7 +92,6 @@ DECLARE_PER_CPU_USER_MAPPED(unsigned lon */ extern int kaiser_add_mapping(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size, unsigned long flags); - /** * kaiser_remove_mapping - unmap a virtual memory part of the shadow mapping * @addr: the start address of the range @@ -104,12 +100,12 @@ extern int kaiser_add_mapping(unsigned l extern void kaiser_remove_mapping(unsigned long start, unsigned long size); /** - * kaiser_initialize_mapping - Initalize the shadow mapping + * kaiser_init - Initialize the shadow mapping * * Most parts of the shadow mapping can be mapped upon boot * time. Only per-process things like the thread stacks * or a new LDT have to be mapped at runtime. These boot- - * time mappings are permanent and nevertunmapped. + * time mappings are permanent and never unmapped. */ extern void kaiser_init(void); @@ -117,6 +113,4 @@ extern void kaiser_init(void); #endif /* __ASSEMBLY */ - - #endif /* _ASM_X86_KAISER_H */
