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Kirill A. Shutemov a0e6e0831c x86/ldt: Unmap PTEs for the slot before freeing LDT pages
modify_ldt(2) leaves the old LDT mapped after switching over to the new
one. The old LDT gets freed and the pages can be re-used.

Leaving the mapping in place can have security implications. The mapping is
present in the userspace page tables and Meltdown-like attacks can read
these freed and possibly reused pages.

It's relatively simple to fix: unmap the old LDT and flush TLB before
freeing the old LDT memory.

This further allows to avoid flushing the TLB in map_ldt_struct() as the
slot is unmapped and flushed by unmap_ldt_struct() or has never been mapped
at all.

[ tglx: Massaged changelog and removed the needless line breaks ]

Fixes: f55f0501cb ("x86/pti: Put the LDT in its own PGD if PTI is on")
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com
Cc: luto@kernel.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: jgross@suse.com
Cc: bhe@redhat.com
Cc: willy@infradead.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181026122856.66224-3-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
2018-11-06 21:35:11 +01:00
arch x86/ldt: Unmap PTEs for the slot before freeing LDT pages 2018-11-06 21:35:11 +01:00
block for-linus-20181102 2018-11-02 11:25:48 -07:00
certs
crypto
Documentation x86/mm: Move LDT remap out of KASLR region on 5-level paging 2018-11-06 21:35:11 +01:00
drivers acpi/nfit, x86/mce: Validate a MCE's address before using it 2018-11-06 19:13:26 +01:00
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fs 3 small fixes, one for stable, one debugging improvmemt, improvements to cifs directio and some minor cleanup 2018-11-03 10:45:55 -07:00
include clockevents/drivers/i8253: Add support for PIT shutdown quirk 2018-11-04 11:04:46 +01:00
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kernel Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-11-03 18:37:09 -07:00
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samples VFIO updates for v4.20 2018-10-31 11:01:38 -07:00
scripts Kbuild updates for v4.20 (2nd) 2018-11-03 10:47:33 -07:00
security + Features/Improvements 2018-11-02 10:04:26 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 4.20-rc1 2018-11-02 11:02:52 -07:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.