Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751517AbeACUL5 (ORCPT + 1 other); Wed, 3 Jan 2018 15:11:57 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:60840 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750819AbeACULx (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jan 2018 15:11:53 -0500 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins , Jiri Kosina Subject: [PATCH 4.4 11/37] kaiser: tidied up asm/kaiser.h somewhat Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 21:11:17 +0100 Message-Id: <20180103195057.449285840@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.15.1 In-Reply-To: <20180103195056.837404126@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20180103195056.837404126@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.65 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-Path: 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Hugh Dickins Mainly deleting a surfeit of blank lines, and reflowing header comment. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Acked-by: Jiri Kosina Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- 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 */