* Patch "kaiser: fix build and FIXME in alloc_ldt_struct()" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree
@ 2018-01-03 18:03 gregkh
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From: gregkh @ 2018-01-03 18:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: hughd, gregkh, jkosina; +Cc: stable, stable-commits
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
kaiser: fix build and FIXME in alloc_ldt_struct()
to the 4.4-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:
kaiser-fix-build-and-fixme-in-alloc_ldt_struct.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
>From foo@baz Wed Jan 3 18:58:12 CET 2018
From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2017 17:09:44 -0700
Subject: kaiser: fix build and FIXME in alloc_ldt_struct()
From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Include linux/kaiser.h instead of asm/kaiser.h to build ldt.c without
CONFIG_KAISER. kaiser_add_mapping() does already return an error code,
so fix the FIXME.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c | 10 ++++------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
+#include <linux/kaiser.h>
#include <asm/ldt.h>
-#include <asm/kaiser.h>
#include <asm/desc.h>
#include <asm/mmu_context.h>
#include <asm/syscalls.h>
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ static struct ldt_struct *alloc_ldt_stru
{
struct ldt_struct *new_ldt;
int alloc_size;
- int ret = 0;
+ int ret;
if (size > LDT_ENTRIES)
return NULL;
@@ -77,10 +77,8 @@ static struct ldt_struct *alloc_ldt_stru
return NULL;
}
- // FIXME: make kaiser_add_mapping() return an error code
- // when it fails
- kaiser_add_mapping((unsigned long)new_ldt->entries, alloc_size,
- __PAGE_KERNEL);
+ ret = kaiser_add_mapping((unsigned long)new_ldt->entries, alloc_size,
+ __PAGE_KERNEL);
if (ret) {
__free_ldt_struct(new_ldt);
return NULL;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hughd@google.com are
queue-4.4/kaiser-vmstat-show-nr_kaisertable-as-nr_overhead.patch
queue-4.4/kaiser-add-nokaiser-boot-option-using-alternative.patch
queue-4.4/kaiser-fix-unlikely-error-in-alloc_ldt_struct.patch
queue-4.4/kaiser-_pgd_alloc-without-__gfp_repeat-to-avoid-stalls.patch
queue-4.4/kaiser-kaiser_flush_tlb_on_return_to_user-check-pcid.patch
queue-4.4/x86-paravirt-dont-patch-flush_tlb_single.patch
queue-4.4/kaiser-merged-update.patch
queue-4.4/kaiser-delete-kaiser_real_switch-option.patch
queue-4.4/kaiser-kaiser_remove_mapping-move-along-the-pgd.patch
queue-4.4/kaiser-fix-perf-crashes.patch
queue-4.4/kaiser-drop-is_atomic-arg-to-kaiser_pagetable_walk.patch
queue-4.4/kaiser-load_new_mm_cr3-let-switch_user_cr3-flush-user.patch
queue-4.4/kaiser-enhanced-by-kernel-and-user-pcids.patch
queue-4.4/kaiser-x86_cr3_pcid_noflush-and-x86_cr3_pcid_user.patch
queue-4.4/kaiser-use-alternative-instead-of-x86_cr3_pcid_noflush.patch
queue-4.4/kaiser-stack-map-page_size-at-thread_size-page_size.patch
queue-4.4/kaiser-name-that-0x1000-kaiser_shadow_pgd_offset.patch
queue-4.4/kaiser-fix-regs-to-do_nmi-ifndef-config_kaiser.patch
queue-4.4/kaiser-do-not-set-_page_nx-on-pgd_none.patch
queue-4.4/kaiser-tidied-up-asm-kaiser.h-somewhat.patch
queue-4.4/kaiser-cleanups-while-trying-for-gold-link.patch
queue-4.4/kaiser-tidied-up-kaiser_add-remove_mapping-slightly.patch
queue-4.4/kaiser-fix-build-and-fixme-in-alloc_ldt_struct.patch
queue-4.4/kaiser-kernel-address-isolation.patch
queue-4.4/kaiser-enomem-if-kaiser_pagetable_walk-null.patch
queue-4.4/kaiser-asm-tlbflush.h-handle-nopge-at-lower-level.patch
queue-4.4/kaiser-paranoid_entry-pass-cr3-need-to-paranoid_exit.patch
queue-4.4/kaiser-kaiser-depends-on-smp.patch
queue-4.4/kaiser-pcid-0-for-kernel-and-128-for-user.patch
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