Merge tag 'v5.3.10' into toradex_5.3.ytoradex_5.3.y

This is the 5.3.10 stable release

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
index 29ffa495bd1c..206a4b6144c2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
@@ -222,13 +222,31 @@ unsigned long __head __startup_64(unsigned long physaddr,
 	 * we might write invalid pmds, when the kernel is relocated
 	 * cleanup_highmap() fixes this up along with the mappings
 	 * beyond _end.
+	 *
+	 * Only the region occupied by the kernel image has so far
+	 * been checked against the table of usable memory regions
+	 * provided by the firmware, so invalidate pages outside that
+	 * region. A page table entry that maps to a reserved area of
+	 * memory would allow processor speculation into that area,
+	 * and on some hardware (particularly the UV platform) even
+	 * speculative access to some reserved areas is caught as an
+	 * error, causing the BIOS to halt the system.
 	 */
 
 	pmd = fixup_pointer(level2_kernel_pgt, physaddr);
-	for (i = 0; i < PTRS_PER_PMD; i++) {
+
+	/* invalidate pages before the kernel image */
+	for (i = 0; i < pmd_index((unsigned long)_text); i++)
+		pmd[i] &= ~_PAGE_PRESENT;
+
+	/* fixup pages that are part of the kernel image */
+	for (; i <= pmd_index((unsigned long)_end); i++)
 		if (pmd[i] & _PAGE_PRESENT)
 			pmd[i] += load_delta;
-	}
+
+	/* invalidate pages after the kernel image */
+	for (; i < PTRS_PER_PMD; i++)
+		pmd[i] &= ~_PAGE_PRESENT;
 
 	/*
 	 * Fixup phys_base - remove the memory encryption mask to obtain