Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull x86 pti updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes:

   - Make the IBPB barrier more strict and add STIBP support (Jiri
     Kosina)

   - Micro-optimize and clean up the entry code (Andy Lutomirski)

   - ... plus misc other fixes"

* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/speculation: Propagate information about RSB filling mitigation to sysfs
  x86/speculation: Enable cross-hyperthread spectre v2 STIBP mitigation
  x86/speculation: Apply IBPB more strictly to avoid cross-process data leak
  x86/speculation: Add RETPOLINE_AMD support to the inline asm CALL_NOSPEC variant
  x86/CPU: Fix unused variable warning when !CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION
  x86/pti/64: Remove the SYSCALL64 entry trampoline
  x86/entry/64: Use the TSS sp2 slot for SYSCALL/SYSRET scratch space
  x86/entry/64: Document idtentry

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
index 16c95cb90496..5bd0a997d81e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
@@ -383,6 +383,10 @@ dotraplinkage void do_double_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code)
 		 * we won't enable interupts or schedule before we invoke
 		 * general_protection, so nothing will clobber the stack
 		 * frame we just set up.
+		 *
+		 * We will enter general_protection with kernel GSBASE,
+		 * which is what the stub expects, given that the faulting
+		 * RIP will be the IRET instruction.
 		 */
 		regs->ip = (unsigned long)general_protection;
 		regs->sp = (unsigned long)&gpregs->orig_ax;