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Jan Beulich d2a3ef44c2 xen/x86: adjust handling of the L3 user vsyscall special page table
Marking the page tableas pinned without ever actually pinning is was
probably an oversight in the first place. The main reason for the change
is more subtle, though: The write of the one present entry each here and
in the subsequently allocated L2 table engage a code path in the
hypervisor which exists only for thought-to-be-broken guests: An mmu-
update operation to a page which is neither a page table nor marked
writable. The hypervisor merely assumes (or should I say "hopes") that
the fact that a writable reference to the page can be obtained means it
is okay to actually write to that page in response to such a hypercall.

While there make all involved code and data dependent upon
X86_VSYSCALL_EMULATION (some code was already).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1048f5b8-b726-dcc1-1216-9d5ac328ce82@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2021-11-02 07:45:43 -05:00
arch xen/x86: adjust handling of the L3 user vsyscall special page table 2021-11-02 07:45:43 -05:00
block for-5.16/inode-sync-2021-10-29 2021-11-01 10:25:27 -07:00
certs certs: Add support for using elliptic curve keys for signing modules 2021-08-23 19:55:42 +03:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2021-11-01 21:24:02 -07:00
Documentation Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2021-11-01 21:24:02 -07:00
drivers Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2021-11-01 21:24:02 -07:00
fs audit/stable-5.16 PR 20211101 2021-11-01 21:17:39 -07:00
include Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2021-11-01 21:24:02 -07:00
init Tracing updates for 5.16: 2021-11-01 20:05:19 -07:00
ipc ipc: remove memcg accounting for sops objects in do_semtimedop() 2021-09-14 10:22:11 -07:00
kernel audit/stable-5.16 PR 20211101 2021-11-01 21:17:39 -07:00
lib Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2021-11-01 21:24:02 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0: Git rid of "smart quotes" 2021-07-15 06:31:24 -06:00
mm arm64 updates for 5.16 2021-11-01 16:33:53 -07:00
net overflow updates for v5.16-rc1 2021-11-01 17:12:56 -07:00
samples Tracing updates for 5.16: 2021-11-01 20:05:19 -07:00
scripts overflow updates for v5.16-rc1 2021-11-01 17:12:56 -07:00
security audit/stable-5.16 PR 20211101 2021-11-01 21:17:39 -07:00
sound ALSA: usb-audio: Fix microphone sound on Jieli webcam. 2021-10-19 08:07:01 +02:00
tools RCU pull request for v5.16 2021-11-01 20:25:38 -07:00
usr .gitignore: prefix local generated files with a slash 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
virt KVM: Remove tlbs_dirty 2021-09-23 11:01:12 -04:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2021-05-12 23:32:39 +02:00
.cocciconfig
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore only top-level modules.builtin 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
.mailmap media updates for v5.16-rc1 2021-11-01 18:45:08 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Move Daniel Drake to credits 2021-09-21 08:34:58 +03:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2021-11-01 21:24:02 -07:00
Makefile compiler hardening updates for v5.16-rc1 2021-11-01 17:09:03 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.