Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"The accumulated fixes from this and last week:
- Fix vmalloc TLB flush and map range calculations which lead to
stale TLBs, spurious faults and other hard to diagnose issues.
- Use fault_in_pages_writable() for prefaulting the user stack in the
FPU code as it's less fragile than the current solution
- Use the PF_KTHREAD flag when checking for a kernel thread instead
of current->mm as the latter can give the wrong answer due to
use_mm()
- Compute the vmemmap size correctly for KASLR and 5-Level paging.
Otherwise this can end up with a way too small vmemmap area.
- Make KASAN and 5-level paging work again by making sure that all
invalid bits are masked out when computing the P4D offset. This
worked before but got broken recently when the LDT remap area was
moved.
- Prevent a NULL pointer dereference in the resource...
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