Hi,

On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 03:20:19PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> Part of the global bit _setting_ patches also includes clearing the
> Global bit when we do not want it.  That is done with
> set_memory_nonglobal(), which uses change_page_attr_clear() in
> pageattr.c under the covers.
> 
> The TLB flushing code inside pageattr.c has has checks like
> BUG_ON(irqs_disabled()), looking for interrupt disabling that might
> cause deadlocks.  But, these also trip in early boot on certain
> preempt configurations.  Just copy the existing BUG_ON() sequence from
> cpa_flush_range() to the other two sites and check for early boot.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
> Fixes: 39114b7a7 (x86/pti: Never implicitly clear _PAGE_GLOBAL for kernel 
> image)
> Reported-by: Mariusz Ceier <[email protected]>
> Reported-by: Aaro Koskinen <[email protected]>

Tested-by: Aaro Koskinen <[email protected]>

A.

> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
> Cc: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
> Cc: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
> Cc: Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
> Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
> Cc: Nadav Amit <[email protected]>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> ---
> 
>  b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c |    4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff -puN arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c~pti-glb-boot-problem-fix 
> arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c~pti-glb-boot-problem-fix 2018-04-20 
> 14:10:01.086749169 -0700
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c  2018-04-20 14:10:01.090749169 -0700
> @@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ static void __cpa_flush_all(void *arg)
>  
>  static void cpa_flush_all(unsigned long cache)
>  {
> -     BUG_ON(irqs_disabled());
> +     BUG_ON(irqs_disabled() && !early_boot_irqs_disabled);
>  
>       on_each_cpu(__cpa_flush_all, (void *) cache, 1);
>  }
> @@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ static void cpa_flush_array(unsigned lon
>       unsigned long do_wbinvd = cache && numpages >= 1024; /* 4M threshold */
>  #endif
>  
> -     BUG_ON(irqs_disabled());
> +     BUG_ON(irqs_disabled() && !early_boot_irqs_disabled);
>  
>       on_each_cpu(__cpa_flush_all, (void *) do_wbinvd, 1);
>  
> _

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