Nadav Amit 9bc4f28af7 x86/mm: Use WRITE_ONCE() when setting PTEs ... When page-table entries are set, the compiler might optimize their assignment by using multiple instructions to set the PTE. This might turn into a security hazard if the user somehow manages to use the interim PTE. L1TF does not make our lives easier, making even an interim non-present PTE a security hazard. Using WRITE_ONCE() to set PTEs and friends should prevent this potential security hazard. I skimmed the differences in the binary with and without this patch. The differences are (obviously) greater when CONFIG_PARAVIRT=n as more code optimizations are possible. For better and worse, the impact on the binary with this patch is pretty small. Skimming the code did not cause anything to jump out as a security hazard, but it seems that at least move_soft_dirty_pte() caused set_pte_at() to use multiple writes. Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180902181451.80520-1-namit@vmware.com		2018-09-08 12:30:36 +02:00
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asm	x86/mm: Use WRITE_ONCE() when setting PTEs	2018-09-08 12:30:36 +02:00
uapi/asm	KVM: X86: Implement PV IPIs in linux guest	2018-08-06 17:59:22 +02:00