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Re: CVE-2017-5754 - ETA?

From Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: CVE-2017-5754 - ETA?
Date 2018-01-13 09:10 +0100
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On Fri, 2018-01-12 at 22:40 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2018-01-12 21:21:06 +0000, Nick wrote:
> > It might have aged out of the buffer that dmesg reports on.
> 
> No, there's the beginning of the dmesg output:
> 
> [    0.000000] Linux version 4.9.0-5-amd64 (debian-kernel@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 6.3.0 20170516 (Debian 6.3.0-18) ) #1 SMP Debian 4.9.65-3+deb9u2 (2018-01-04)
> 
> But I think I've found the reason:
> 
> In arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c:
> 
> void __init kaiser_check_boottime_disable(void)
> {
> [...]
>         if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_XENPV))
>                 goto silent_disable;
> [...]
> disable:
>         pr_info("disabled\n");
> 
> silent_disable:
>         kaiser_enabled = 0;
>         setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_KAISER);
> }
> 
> I must be in the "silent_disable" case (this is a Xen guest).
> 
> It's unfortunate that no-one mentions this case!

Hmm. I have a system running under Xen and get the 'page tables
isolation: enabled' message. Here's what I hope are relevant parts from
dmesg output...

[    0.000000] Linux version 4.9.0-5-amd64 (debian-kernel@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 6.3.0 20170
516 (Debian 6.3.0-18) ) #1 SMP Debian 4.9.65-3+deb9u2 (2018-01-04)
...
[    0.000000] DMI: Xen HVM domU, BIOS 4.8.1-pre-memset3 06/07/2017
[    0.000000] Hypervisor detected: Xen
[    0.000000] Xen version 4.8.
...
[    0.000000] Booting paravirtualized kernel on Xen HVM
...
[    0.000000] Kernel/User page tables isolation: enabled

-- 
Tixy

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CVE-2017-5754 - ETA? francis picabia <fpicabia@gmail.com> - 2018-01-04 15:00 +0100
  Re: CVE-2017-5754 - ETA? Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> - 2018-01-04 21:50 +0100
    Re: CVE-2017-5754 - ETA? francis picabia <fpicabia@gmail.com> - 2018-01-08 16:40 +0100
      Re: CVE-2017-5754 - ETA? Jeroen Mathon <jeroenmathonmac@gmail.com> - 2018-01-08 17:20 +0100
      Re: CVE-2017-5754 - ETA? Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2018-01-08 18:10 +0100
        Re: CVE-2017-5754 - ETA? Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2018-01-08 18:40 +0100
      Re: CVE-2017-5754 - ETA? Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2018-01-08 22:30 +0100
        Re: CVE-2017-5754 - ETA? francis picabia <fpicabia@gmail.com> - 2018-01-10 13:50 +0100
    Re: CVE-2017-5754 - ETA? Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2018-01-12 14:40 +0100
      Re: CVE-2017-5754 - ETA? bw <bwtnguy@yahoo.com> - 2018-01-12 16:10 +0100
        Re: CVE-2017-5754 - ETA? Jack Dangler <tdldev@gmail.com> - 2018-01-12 17:00 +0100
          Re: CVE-2017-5754 - ETA? Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-01-12 17:00 +0100
        Re: CVE-2017-5754 - ETA? Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2018-01-12 22:10 +0100
          Re: CVE-2017-5754 - ETA? Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-01-12 22:20 +0100
            Re: CVE-2017-5754 - ETA? Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2018-01-12 22:20 +0100
          Re: CVE-2017-5754 - ETA? Nick <debuser@acrasis.net> - 2018-01-12 22:30 +0100
            Re: CVE-2017-5754 - ETA? Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2018-01-12 22:50 +0100
              Re: CVE-2017-5754 - XEN silent_disable? bw <bwtnguy@yahoo.com> - 2018-01-13 02:10 +0100
                Re: CVE-2017-5754 - XEN silent_disable? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-01-13 08:30 +0100
                Re: CVE-2017-5754 - XEN silent_disable? Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2018-01-13 10:50 +0100
                Re: CVE-2017-5754 - XEN silent_disable? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-01-13 12:30 +0100
              Re: CVE-2017-5754 - ETA? Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2018-01-13 09:10 +0100
                Re: CVE-2017-5754 - ETA? Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2018-01-13 09:50 +0100

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