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From 827b728c1e4aec28a115b6be56a0ac2407e9dd05 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 12:03:34 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 3/7] x86/nmi/64: Remove asm code that saves cr2

commit e7c2c90651fd54c3ca499fbb065ea5cbac30047d upstream.

Now that do_nmi saves cr2, we don't need to save it in asm.

This is a prerequisity for the fix for CVE-2015-3290.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
[bwh: Backported to 4.0: adjust filename, context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S | 18 ------------------
 1 file changed, 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
index b32f346..34f07d7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -1603,29 +1603,11 @@ end_repeat_nmi:
 	call paranoid_entry
 	DEFAULT_FRAME 0
 
-	/*
-	 * Save off the CR2 register. If we take a page fault in the NMI then
-	 * it could corrupt the CR2 value. If the NMI preempts a page fault
-	 * handler before it was able to read the CR2 register, and then the
-	 * NMI itself takes a page fault, the page fault that was preempted
-	 * will read the information from the NMI page fault and not the
-	 * origin fault. Save it off and restore it if it changes.
-	 * Use the r12 callee-saved register.
-	 */
-	movq %cr2, %r12
-
 	/* paranoidentry do_nmi, 0; without TRACE_IRQS_OFF */
 	movq %rsp,%rdi
 	movq $-1,%rsi
 	call do_nmi
 
-	/* Did the NMI take a page fault? Restore cr2 if it did */
-	movq %cr2, %rcx
-	cmpq %rcx, %r12
-	je 1f
-	movq %r12, %cr2
-1:
-	
 	testl %ebx,%ebx				/* swapgs needed? */
 	jnz nmi_restore
 nmi_swapgs:
-- 
2.4.3