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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>2014-12-17 14:48:30 -0800
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2014-12-18 12:12:26 +0100
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parentx86/tls: Disallow unusual TLS segments (diff)
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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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