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<title>x86/espfix/xen: Fix allocation of pages for paravirt page tables</title>
<updated>2014-08-07T21:52:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Boris Ostrovsky</name>
<email>boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-09T17:18:18+00:00</published>
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commit 8762e5092828c4dc0f49da5a47a644c670df77f3 upstream.

init_espfix_ap() is currently off by one level when informing hypervisor
that allocated pages will be used for ministacks' page tables.

The most immediate effect of this on a PV guest is that if
'stack_page = __get_free_page()' returns a non-zeroed-out page the hypervisor
will refuse to use it for a page table (which it shouldn't be anyway). This will
result in warnings by both Xen and Linux.

More importantly, a subsequent write to that page (again, by a PV guest) is
likely to result in fatal page fault.

Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1404926298-5565-1-git-send-email-boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 8762e5092828c4dc0f49da5a47a644c670df77f3 upstream.

init_espfix_ap() is currently off by one level when informing hypervisor
that allocated pages will be used for ministacks' page tables.

The most immediate effect of this on a PV guest is that if
'stack_page = __get_free_page()' returns a non-zeroed-out page the hypervisor
will refuse to use it for a page table (which it shouldn't be anyway). This will
result in warnings by both Xen and Linux.

More importantly, a subsequent write to that page (again, by a PV guest) is
likely to result in fatal page fault.

Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1404926298-5565-1-git-send-email-boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>xtensa: add fixup for double exception raised in window overflow</title>
<updated>2014-08-07T21:52:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Max Filippov</name>
<email>jcmvbkbc@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-24T17:48:28+00:00</published>
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commit 17290231df16eeee5dfc198dbf5ee4b419996dcd upstream.

There are two FIXMEs in the double exception handler 'for the extremely
unlikely case'. This case gets hit by gcc during kernel build once in
a few hours, resulting in an unrecoverable exception condition.

Provide missing fixup routine to handle this case. Double exception
literals now need 8 more bytes, add them to the linker script.

Also replace bbsi instructions with bbsi.l as we're branching depending
on 8th and 7th LSB-based bits of exception address.

This may be tested by adding the explicit DTLB invalidation to window
overflow handlers, like the following:

#    --- a/arch/xtensa/kernel/vectors.S
#    +++ b/arch/xtensa/kernel/vectors.S
#    @@ -592,6 +592,14 @@ ENDPROC(_WindowUnderflow4)
#     ENTRY_ALIGN64(_WindowOverflow8)
#
#    	s32e	a0, a9, -16
#    +	bbsi.l	a9, 31, 1f
#    +	rsr	a0, ccount
#    +	bbsi.l	a0, 4, 1f
#    +	pdtlb	a0, a9
#    +	idtlb	a0
#    +	movi	a0, 9
#    +	idtlb	a0
#    +1:
#    	l32e    a0, a1, -12
#    	s32e    a2, a9,  -8
#    	s32e    a1, a9, -12

Signed-off-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 17290231df16eeee5dfc198dbf5ee4b419996dcd upstream.

There are two FIXMEs in the double exception handler 'for the extremely
unlikely case'. This case gets hit by gcc during kernel build once in
a few hours, resulting in an unrecoverable exception condition.

Provide missing fixup routine to handle this case. Double exception
literals now need 8 more bytes, add them to the linker script.

Also replace bbsi instructions with bbsi.l as we're branching depending
on 8th and 7th LSB-based bits of exception address.

This may be tested by adding the explicit DTLB invalidation to window
overflow handlers, like the following:

#    --- a/arch/xtensa/kernel/vectors.S
#    +++ b/arch/xtensa/kernel/vectors.S
#    @@ -592,6 +592,14 @@ ENDPROC(_WindowUnderflow4)
#     ENTRY_ALIGN64(_WindowOverflow8)
#
#    	s32e	a0, a9, -16
#    +	bbsi.l	a9, 31, 1f
#    +	rsr	a0, ccount
#    +	bbsi.l	a0, 4, 1f
#    +	pdtlb	a0, a9
#    +	idtlb	a0
#    +	movi	a0, 9
#    +	idtlb	a0
#    +1:
#    	l32e    a0, a1, -12
#    	s32e    a2, a9,  -8
#    	s32e    a1, a9, -12

Signed-off-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>x86/xen: no need to explicitly register an NMI callback</title>
<updated>2014-08-07T21:52:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Vrabel</name>
<email>david.vrabel@citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-16T11:07:00+00:00</published>
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commit ea9f9274bf4337ba7cbab241c780487651642d63 upstream.

Remove xen_enable_nmi() to fix a 64-bit guest crash when registering
the NMI callback on Xen 3.1 and earlier.

It's not needed since the NMI callback is set by a set_trap_table
hypercall (in xen_load_idt() or xen_write_idt_entry()).

It's also broken since it only set the current VCPU's callback.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Reported-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Noonan &lt;steven@uplinklabs.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit ea9f9274bf4337ba7cbab241c780487651642d63 upstream.

Remove xen_enable_nmi() to fix a 64-bit guest crash when registering
the NMI callback on Xen 3.1 and earlier.

It's not needed since the NMI callback is set by a set_trap_table
hypercall (in xen_load_idt() or xen_write_idt_entry()).

It's also broken since it only set the current VCPU's callback.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Reported-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Noonan &lt;steven@uplinklabs.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: dts: dra7-evm: Make VDDA_1V8_PHY supply always on</title>
<updated>2014-08-07T21:52:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Roger Quadros</name>
<email>rogerq@ti.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-04T09:55:43+00:00</published>
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commit e120fb459693bbc1ac3eabdd65c3659d7cfbfd2a upstream.

After clarification from the hardware team it was found that
this 1.8V PHY supply can't be switched OFF when SoC is Active.

Since the PHY IPs don't contain isolation logic built in the design to
allow the power rail to be switched off, there is a very high risk
of IP reliability and additional leakage paths which can result in
additional power consumption.

The only scenario where this rail can be switched off is part of Power on
reset sequencing, but it needs to be kept always-on during operation.

This patch is required for proper functionality of USB, SATA
and PCIe on DRA7-evm.

CC: Rajendra Nayak &lt;rnayak@ti.com&gt;
CC: Tero Kristo &lt;t-kristo@ti.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Roger Quadros &lt;rogerq@ti.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit e120fb459693bbc1ac3eabdd65c3659d7cfbfd2a upstream.

After clarification from the hardware team it was found that
this 1.8V PHY supply can't be switched OFF when SoC is Active.

Since the PHY IPs don't contain isolation logic built in the design to
allow the power rail to be switched off, there is a very high risk
of IP reliability and additional leakage paths which can result in
additional power consumption.

The only scenario where this rail can be switched off is part of Power on
reset sequencing, but it needs to be kept always-on during operation.

This patch is required for proper functionality of USB, SATA
and PCIe on DRA7-evm.

CC: Rajendra Nayak &lt;rnayak@ti.com&gt;
CC: Tero Kristo &lt;t-kristo@ti.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Roger Quadros &lt;rogerq@ti.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86_64/entry/xen: Do not invoke espfix64 on Xen</title>
<updated>2014-08-07T21:52:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@amacapital.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-23T15:34:11+00:00</published>
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commit 7209a75d2009dbf7745e2fd354abf25c3deb3ca3 upstream.

This moves the espfix64 logic into native_iret.  To make this work,
it gets rid of the native patch for INTERRUPT_RETURN:
INTERRUPT_RETURN on native kernels is now 'jmp native_iret'.

This changes the 16-bit SS behavior on Xen from OOPSing to leaking
some bits of the Xen hypervisor's RSP (I think).

[ hpa: this is a nonzero cost on native, but probably not enough to
  measure. Xen needs to fix this in their own code, probably doing
  something equivalent to espfix64. ]

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/7b8f1d8ef6597cb16ae004a43c56980a7de3cf94.1406129132.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 7209a75d2009dbf7745e2fd354abf25c3deb3ca3 upstream.

This moves the espfix64 logic into native_iret.  To make this work,
it gets rid of the native patch for INTERRUPT_RETURN:
INTERRUPT_RETURN on native kernels is now 'jmp native_iret'.

This changes the 16-bit SS behavior on Xen from OOPSing to leaking
some bits of the Xen hypervisor's RSP (I think).

[ hpa: this is a nonzero cost on native, but probably not enough to
  measure. Xen needs to fix this in their own code, probably doing
  something equivalent to espfix64. ]

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/7b8f1d8ef6597cb16ae004a43c56980a7de3cf94.1406129132.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, espfix: Make it possible to disable 16-bit support</title>
<updated>2014-08-07T21:52:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@zytor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-04T17:36:22+00:00</published>
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commit 34273f41d57ee8d854dcd2a1d754cbb546cb548f upstream.

Embedded systems, which may be very memory-size-sensitive, are
extremely unlikely to ever encounter any 16-bit software, so make it
a CONFIG_EXPERT option to turn off support for any 16-bit software
whatsoever.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398816946-3351-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 34273f41d57ee8d854dcd2a1d754cbb546cb548f upstream.

Embedded systems, which may be very memory-size-sensitive, are
extremely unlikely to ever encounter any 16-bit software, so make it
a CONFIG_EXPERT option to turn off support for any 16-bit software
whatsoever.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398816946-3351-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>x86, espfix: Make espfix64 a Kconfig option, fix UML</title>
<updated>2014-08-07T21:52:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@zytor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-04T17:00:49+00:00</published>
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commit 197725de65477bc8509b41388157c1a2283542bb upstream.

Make espfix64 a hidden Kconfig option.  This fixes the x86-64 UML
build which had broken due to the non-existence of init_espfix_bsp()
in UML: since UML uses its own Kconfig, this option does not appear in
the UML build.

This also makes it possible to make support for 16-bit segments a
configuration option, for the people who want to minimize the size of
the kernel.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398816946-3351-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 197725de65477bc8509b41388157c1a2283542bb upstream.

Make espfix64 a hidden Kconfig option.  This fixes the x86-64 UML
build which had broken due to the non-existence of init_espfix_bsp()
in UML: since UML uses its own Kconfig, this option does not appear in
the UML build.

This also makes it possible to make support for 16-bit segments a
configuration option, for the people who want to minimize the size of
the kernel.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398816946-3351-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>x86, espfix: Fix broken header guard</title>
<updated>2014-08-07T21:52:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-02T18:33:51+00:00</published>
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commit 20b68535cd27183ebd3651ff313afb2b97dac941 upstream.

Header guard is #ifndef, not #ifdef...

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 20b68535cd27183ebd3651ff313afb2b97dac941 upstream.

Header guard is #ifndef, not #ifdef...

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, espfix: Move espfix definitions into a separate header file</title>
<updated>2014-08-07T21:52:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-01T21:12:23+00:00</published>
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commit e1fe9ed8d2a4937510d0d60e20705035c2609aea upstream.

Sparse warns that the percpu variables aren't declared before they are
defined.  Rather than hacking around it, move espfix definitions into
a proper header file.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit e1fe9ed8d2a4937510d0d60e20705035c2609aea upstream.

Sparse warns that the percpu variables aren't declared before they are
defined.  Rather than hacking around it, move espfix definitions into
a proper header file.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>x86-64, espfix: Don't leak bits 31:16 of %esp returning to 16-bit stack</title>
<updated>2014-08-07T21:52:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-29T23:46:09+00:00</published>
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commit 3891a04aafd668686239349ea58f3314ea2af86b upstream.

The IRET instruction, when returning to a 16-bit segment, only
restores the bottom 16 bits of the user space stack pointer.  This
causes some 16-bit software to break, but it also leaks kernel state
to user space.  We have a software workaround for that ("espfix") for
the 32-bit kernel, but it relies on a nonzero stack segment base which
is not available in 64-bit mode.

In checkin:

    b3b42ac2cbae x86-64, modify_ldt: Ban 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels

we "solved" this by forbidding 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels, with
the logic that 16-bit support is crippled on 64-bit kernels anyway (no
V86 support), but it turns out that people are doing stuff like
running old Win16 binaries under Wine and expect it to work.

This works around this by creating percpu "ministacks", each of which
is mapped 2^16 times 64K apart.  When we detect that the return SS is
on the LDT, we copy the IRET frame to the ministack and use the
relevant alias to return to userspace.  The ministacks are mapped
readonly, so if IRET faults we promote #GP to #DF which is an IST
vector and thus has its own stack; we then do the fixup in the #DF
handler.

(Making #GP an IST exception would make the msr_safe functions unsafe
in NMI/MC context, and quite possibly have other effects.)

Special thanks to:

- Andy Lutomirski, for the suggestion of using very small stack slots
  and copy (as opposed to map) the IRET frame there, and for the
  suggestion to mark them readonly and let the fault promote to #DF.
- Konrad Wilk for paravirt fixup and testing.
- Borislav Petkov for testing help and useful comments.

Reported-by: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398816946-3351-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Andrew Lutomriski &lt;amluto@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Dirk Hohndel &lt;dirk@hohndel.org&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com&gt;
Cc: comex &lt;comexk@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander van Heukelum &lt;heukelum@fastmail.fm&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # consider after upstream merge
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 3891a04aafd668686239349ea58f3314ea2af86b upstream.

The IRET instruction, when returning to a 16-bit segment, only
restores the bottom 16 bits of the user space stack pointer.  This
causes some 16-bit software to break, but it also leaks kernel state
to user space.  We have a software workaround for that ("espfix") for
the 32-bit kernel, but it relies on a nonzero stack segment base which
is not available in 64-bit mode.

In checkin:

    b3b42ac2cbae x86-64, modify_ldt: Ban 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels

we "solved" this by forbidding 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels, with
the logic that 16-bit support is crippled on 64-bit kernels anyway (no
V86 support), but it turns out that people are doing stuff like
running old Win16 binaries under Wine and expect it to work.

This works around this by creating percpu "ministacks", each of which
is mapped 2^16 times 64K apart.  When we detect that the return SS is
on the LDT, we copy the IRET frame to the ministack and use the
relevant alias to return to userspace.  The ministacks are mapped
readonly, so if IRET faults we promote #GP to #DF which is an IST
vector and thus has its own stack; we then do the fixup in the #DF
handler.

(Making #GP an IST exception would make the msr_safe functions unsafe
in NMI/MC context, and quite possibly have other effects.)

Special thanks to:

- Andy Lutomirski, for the suggestion of using very small stack slots
  and copy (as opposed to map) the IRET frame there, and for the
  suggestion to mark them readonly and let the fault promote to #DF.
- Konrad Wilk for paravirt fixup and testing.
- Borislav Petkov for testing help and useful comments.

Reported-by: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398816946-3351-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Andrew Lutomriski &lt;amluto@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Dirk Hohndel &lt;dirk@hohndel.org&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com&gt;
Cc: comex &lt;comexk@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander van Heukelum &lt;heukelum@fastmail.fm&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # consider after upstream merge
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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