linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 0/5] x86/fault: #PF improvements, mostly related to USER bit

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Date:   Wed, 21 Nov 2018 15:11:21 -0800
From:   Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
To:     x86@...nel.org
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/5] x86/fault: #PF improvements, mostly related to USER bit

This series is a whole bunch of page fault cleanups, plus a couple
of OOPS diagnostic improvements.  The overall goals are to clean up
handling of the faulting CPL, the USER bit in the error_code, and
the log messages generated by #PF OOPSes.

This series can also be seen as CET preparation.  CET introduces the
WRUSS instruction, which is the very first way for CPL 0 code to
cause a #PF fault with the USER bit set.  Let's get the page fault
code into shape before we start using WRUSS :)

Changes from v1:
  - Rebase on top of tip:x86/mm, now that a bunch of v1 was applied.
    The only material changes are that 'x86/fault: Check
    user_mode(regs) when validating a stack extension' is gone
    because the code it fixed has been deleted and that 'x86/fault:
    Remove sw_error_code' lost the hunk that changed the same code.

Andy Lutomirski (5):
  x86/fault: Remove sw_error_code
  x86/fault: Don't try to recover from an implicit supervisor access
  x86/oops: Show the correct CS value in show_regs()
  x86/fault: Decode page fault OOPSes better
  x86/vsyscall/64: Use X86_PF constants in the simulated #PF error code

 arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c |   2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c          |   5 +-
 arch/x86/mm/fault.c                   | 144 +++++++++++++++++++-------
 3 files changed, 108 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)

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