linux-kernel - Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Make sure IDT is page aligned

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Date:	Wed, 17 Jul 2013 11:57:13 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	PaX Team <pageexec@...il.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	"linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org" 
	<linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Make sure IDT is page aligned

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 3:33 PM, tip-bot for Kees Cook <tipbot@...or.com> wrote:
> Commit-ID:  4df05f361937ee86e5a8c9ead8aeb6a19ea9b7d7
> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/4df05f361937ee86e5a8c9ead8aeb6a19ea9b7d7
> Author:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> AuthorDate: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 11:34:41 -0700
> Committer:  H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
> CommitDate: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 15:14:48 -0700
>
> x86: Make sure IDT is page aligned
>
> Since the IDT is referenced from a fixmap, make sure it is page aligned.
> Merge with 32-bit one, since it was already aligned to deal with F00F
> bug. Since bss is cleared before IDT setup, it can live there. This also
> moves the other *_idt_table variables into common locations.
>
> This avoids the risk of the IDT ever being moved in the bss and having
> the mapping be offset, resulting in calling incorrect handlers. In the
> current upstream kernel this is not a manifested bug, but heavily patched
> kernels (such as those using the PaX patch series) did encounter this bug.
>
> The tables other than idt_table technically do not need to be page
> aligned, at least not at the current time, but using a common
> declaration avoids mistakes.  On 64 bits the table is exactly one page
> long, anyway.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130716183441.GA14232@www.outflux.net
> Reported-by: PaX Team <pageexec@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...ux.intel.com>

Hi, Peter,

Any reason for why following changelog get dropped?

---
v5:
 - add comments to all IDTs about alignment reasoning, suggested by Linus
v4:
 - rework using __page_aligned_bss, suggested by Yinghai LU
 - move all the other IDT variables as well, suggested by HPA
v3:
 - merge 32-bit and 64-bit idt_table definition
v2:
 - 32-bit was already aligned
---

That at least would help us to check if you apply the right version.

Yinghai
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