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author | Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> | 2014-12-17 14:48:30 -0800 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2014-12-18 12:12:26 +0100 |
commit | 3fb2f4237bb452eb4e98f6a5dbd5a445b4fed9d0 (patch) | |
tree | 497a40782e96617b59efa507aa736bd09c037452 /drivers/base | |
parent | 0e58af4e1d2166e9e33375a0f121e4867010d4f8 (diff) |
x86/tls: Don't validate lm in set_thread_area() after all
It turns out that there's a lurking ABI issue. GCC, when
compiling this in a 32-bit program:
struct user_desc desc = {
.entry_number = idx,
.base_addr = base,
.limit = 0xfffff,
.seg_32bit = 1,
.contents = 0, /* Data, grow-up */
.read_exec_only = 0,
.limit_in_pages = 1,
.seg_not_present = 0,
.useable = 0,
};
will leave .lm uninitialized. This means that anything in the
kernel that reads user_desc.lm for 32-bit tasks is unreliable.
Revert the .lm check in set_thread_area(). The value never did
anything in the first place.
Fixes: 0e58af4e1d21 ("x86/tls: Disallow unusual TLS segments")
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # Only if 0e58af4e1d21 is backported
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d7875b60e28c512f6a6fc0baf5714d58e7eaadbb.1418856405.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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