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    x86/vsyscall/64: Explicitly set _PAGE_USER in the pagetable hierarchy · 49275fef
    Andy Lutomirski authored
    The kernel is very erratic as to which pagetables have _PAGE_USER set.  The
    vsyscall page gets lucky: it seems that all of the relevant pagetables are
    among the apparently arbitrary ones that set _PAGE_USER.  Rather than
    relying on chance, just explicitly set _PAGE_USER.
    
    This will let us clean up pagetable setup to stop setting _PAGE_USER.  The
    added code can also be reused by pagetable isolation to manage the
    _PAGE_USER bit in the usermode tables.
    
    [ tglx: Folded paravirt fix from Juergen Gross ]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
    Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
    Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
    Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
    Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
    Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
    Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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