linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] x86/xen: avoid 32-bit writes to PTEs in PV PAE guests

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Date:   Mon, 27 Aug 2018 15:25:03 -0400
From:   Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
To:     Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, x86@...nel.org
Cc:     hpa@...or.com, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com,
        stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] x86/xen: avoid 32-bit writes to PTEs in PV PAE
 guests

On 08/21/2018 11:37 AM, Juergen Gross wrote:
> While the hypervisor emulates plain writes to PTEs happily, this is
> much slower than issuing a hypercall for PTE modifcations. And writing
> a PTE via two 32-bit write instructions (especially when clearing the
> PTE) will result in an intermediate L1TF vulnerable PTE.
>
> Writes to PAE PTEs should always be done with 64-bit writes or via
> hypercalls.
>
> Juergen Gross (2):
>   x86/xen: don't write ptes directly in 32-bit PV guests
>   x86/pae: use 64 bit atomic xchg function in native_ptep_get_and_clear
>
>  arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h | 7 +++----
>  arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c                 | 7 +++----
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>


Applied to for-linus-19b.

(+stable.)

-boris