pve-edge-kernel/patches/kernel/0172-x86-doc-Remove-obvious-weirdnesses-from-the-x86-MM-l.patch

From 8ae2a4b32fa54630c9b3c2302aa8faeb5a513e98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 13:34:54 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 172/242] x86/doc: Remove obvious weirdnesses from the x86 MM
 layout documentation
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CVE-2017-5754

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: David Laight <[email protected]>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]>
Cc: Eduardo Valentin <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg KH <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
Cc: Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit e8ffe96e5933d417195268478479933d56213a3f)
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit d9012133906878a404cf47acc168ff9e4b10e379)
Signed-off-by: Fabian Grünbichler <[email protected]>
---
 Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt | 12 +++---------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt
index 83ca5a3b90ac..63a41671d25b 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 
-<previous description obsolete, deleted>
-
 Virtual memory map with 4 level page tables:
 
 0000000000000000 - 00007fffffffffff (=47 bits) user space, different per mm
@@ -49,8 +47,9 @@ ffffffffffe00000 - ffffffffffffffff (=2 MB) unused hole
 
 Architecture defines a 64-bit virtual address. Implementations can support
 less. Currently supported are 48- and 57-bit virtual addresses. Bits 63
-through to the most-significant implemented bit are set to either all ones
-or all zero. This causes hole between user space and kernel addresses.
+through to the most-significant implemented bit are sign extended.
+This causes hole between user space and kernel addresses if you interpret them
+as unsigned.
 
 The direct mapping covers all memory in the system up to the highest
 memory address (this means in some cases it can also include PCI memory
@@ -60,9 +59,6 @@ vmalloc space is lazily synchronized into the different PML4/PML5 pages of
 the processes using the page fault handler, with init_top_pgt as
 reference.
 
-Current X86-64 implementations support up to 46 bits of address space (64 TB),
-which is our current limit. This expands into MBZ space in the page tables.
-
 We map EFI runtime services in the 'efi_pgd' PGD in a 64Gb large virtual
 memory window (this size is arbitrary, it can be raised later if needed).
 The mappings are not part of any other kernel PGD and are only available
@@ -74,5 +70,3 @@ following fixmap section.
 Note that if CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_MEMORY is enabled, the direct mapping of all
 physical memory, vmalloc/ioremap space and virtual memory map are randomized.
 Their order is preserved but their base will be offset early at boot time.
-
--Andi Kleen, Jul 2004
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