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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 19:54:54 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] x86/mm: Document how CR4.PCIDE restore works
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CVE-2017-5754

While debugging a problem, I thought that using
cr4_set_bits_and_update_boot() to restore CR4.PCIDE would be
helpful.  It turns out to be counterproductive.

Add a comment documenting how this works.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit 1c9fe4409ce3e9c78b1ed96ee8ed699d4f03bf33)
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>
(cherry picked from commit 0d69e4c4a2db42a9bac6609a3df15bd91163f8b9)
Signed-off-by: Fabian Grünbichler <f.gruenbichler@proxmox.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
index b95cd94ca97b..0b80ed14ff52 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -333,6 +333,19 @@ static void setup_pcid(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 {
 	if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_PCID)) {
 		if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_PGE)) {
+			/*
+			 * We'd like to use cr4_set_bits_and_update_boot(),
+			 * but we can't.  CR4.PCIDE is special and can only
+			 * be set in long mode, and the early CPU init code
+			 * doesn't know this and would try to restore CR4.PCIDE
+			 * prior to entering long mode.
+			 *
+			 * Instead, we rely on the fact that hotplug, resume,
+			 * etc all fully restore CR4 before they write anything
+			 * that could have nonzero PCID bits to CR3.  CR4.PCIDE
+			 * has no effect on the page tables themselves, so we
+			 * don't need it to be restored early.
+			 */
 			cr4_set_bits(X86_CR4_PCIDE);
 		} else {
 			/*
-- 
2.14.2

