kernel.git/arch/x86/kernel/tls.c, branch linux-3.17.y

x86/tls: Don't validate lm in set_thread_area() after all

2015-01-08T18:27:47Z

commit 3fb2f4237bb452eb4e98f6a5dbd5a445b4fed9d0 upstream. 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 Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Linus Torvalds Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d7875b60e28c512f6a6fc0baf5714d58e7eaadbb.1418856405.git.luto@amacapital.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/tls: Disallow unusual TLS segments

2015-01-08T18:27:44Z

commit 0e58af4e1d2166e9e33375a0f121e4867010d4f8 upstream. Users have no business installing custom code segments into the GDT, and segments that are not present but are otherwise valid are a historical source of interesting attacks. For completeness, block attempts to set the L bit. (Prior to this patch, the L bit would have been silently dropped.) This is an ABI break. I've checked glibc, musl, and Wine, and none of them look like they'll have any trouble. Note to stable maintainers: this is a hardening patch that fixes no known bugs. Given the possibility of ABI issues, this probably shouldn't be backported quickly. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Willy Tarreau Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/tls: Validate TLS entries to protect espfix

2015-01-08T18:27:44Z

commit 41bdc78544b8a93a9c6814b8bbbfef966272abbe upstream. Installing a 16-bit RW data segment into the GDT defeats espfix. AFAICT this will not affect glibc, Wine, or dosemu at all. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Willy Tarreau Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

make SYSCALL_DEFINE-generated wrappers do asmlinkage_protect

2013-03-04T03:58:33Z

... and switch i386 to HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS, killing open-coded uses of asmlinkage_protect() in a bunch of syscalls. Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2012-03-29T21:28:26Z

Pull x86 updates from Ingo Molnar. This touches some non-x86 files due to the sanitized INLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK config usage. Fixed up trivial conflicts due to just header include changes (removing headers due to cpu_idle() merge clashing with the split). * 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/apic/amd: Be more verbose about LVT offset assignments x86, tls: Off by one limit check x86/ioapic: Add io_apic_ops driver layer to allow interception x86/olpc: Add debugfs interface for EC commands x86: Merge the x86_32 and x86_64 cpu_idle() functions x86/kconfig: Remove CONFIG_TR=y from the defconfigs x86: Stop recursive fault in print_context_stack after stack overflow x86/io_apic: Move and reenable irq only when CONFIG_GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ=y x86/apic: Add separate apic_id_valid() functions for selected apic drivers locking/kconfig: Simplify INLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK usage x86/kconfig: Update defconfigs x86: Fix excessive MSR print out when show_msr is not specified

Disintegrate asm/system.h for X86

2012-03-28T17:11:12Z

Disintegrate asm/system.h for X86. Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin cc: x86@kernel.org

x86, tls: Off by one limit check

2012-03-28T16:39:35Z

These are used as offsets into an array of GDT_ENTRY_TLS_ENTRIES members so GDT_ENTRY_TLS_ENTRIES is one past the end of the array. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120324075250.GA28258@elgon.mountain Cc: Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

x86: Introducing asm/syscalls.h

2008-07-22T12:35:57Z

Declaring arch-dependent syscalls for x86 architecture Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh

asmlinkage_protect replaces prevent_tail_call

2008-04-11T00:28:26Z

The prevent_tail_call() macro works around the problem of the compiler clobbering argument words on the stack, which for asmlinkage functions is the caller's (user's) struct pt_regs. The tail/sibling-call optimization is not the only way that the compiler can decide to use stack argument words as scratch space, which we have to prevent. Other optimizations can do it too. Until we have new compiler support to make "asmlinkage" binding on the compiler's own use of the stack argument frame, we have work around all the manifestations of this issue that crop up. More cases seem to be prevented by also keeping the incoming argument variables live at the end of the function. This makes their original stack slots attractive places to leave those variables, so the compiler tends not clobber them for something else. It's still no guarantee, but it handles some observed cases that prevent_tail_call() did not. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

x86: tls prevent_tail_call

2008-02-29T17:55:39Z

Fix a kernel bug (vmware boot problem) reported by Tomasz Grobelny, which occurs with certain .config variants and gccs. The x86 TLS cleanup in commit efd1ca52d04d2f6df337a3332cee56cd60e6d4c4 made the sys_set_thread_area and sys_get_thread_area functions ripe for tail call optimization. If the compiler chooses to use it for them, it can clobber the user trap frame because these are asmlinkage functions. Reported-by: Tomasz Grobelny Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar