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Date:	Tue, 28 Oct 2014 04:15:38 -0700
From:	tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski <tipbot@...or.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...nel.org, hpa@...or.com,
	tglx@...utronix.de, luto@...capital.net
Subject: [tip:x86/vdso] x86/vdso: Make the PER_CPU segment 32 bits

Commit-ID:  287e013108a104e459e675432cf20087feab2b67
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/287e013108a104e459e675432cf20087feab2b67
Author:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
AuthorDate: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 10:50:55 -0700
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 11:22:12 +0100

x86/vdso: Make the PER_CPU segment 32 bits

IMO users ought not to be able to use 16-bit segments without
using modify_ldt.  Fortunately, it's impossible to break
espfix64 by loading the PER_CPU segment into SS because it's
PER_CPU is marked read-only and SS cannot contain an RO segment,
but marking PER_CPU as 32-bit is less fragile.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/179f490d659307873eefd09206bebd417e2ab5ad.1411494540.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/vdso/vma.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/vdso/vma.c b/arch/x86/vdso/vma.c
index 0c799746..32ca60c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/vdso/vma.c
+++ b/arch/x86/vdso/vma.c
@@ -268,6 +268,7 @@ static void vsyscall_set_cpu(int cpu)
 		.dpl = 3,		/* Visible to user code */
 		.s = 1,			/* Not a system segment */
 		.p = 1,			/* Present */
+		.d = 1,			/* 32-bit */
 	};
 
 	write_gdt_entry(get_cpu_gdt_table(cpu), GDT_ENTRY_PER_CPU, &d, DESCTYPE_S);
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