linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.13.y-ckt 096/103] x86, tls, ldt: Stop checking lm in LDT

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Message-Id: <1424305990-17983-97-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com>
Date:	Wed, 18 Feb 2015 16:33:03 -0800
From:	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.13.y-ckt 096/103] x86, tls, ldt: Stop checking lm in LDT_empty

3.13.11-ckt16 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>

commit e30ab185c490e9a9381385529e0fd32f0a399495 upstream.

32-bit programs don't have an lm bit in their ABI, so they can't
reliably cause LDT_empty to return true without resorting to memset.
They shouldn't need to do this.

This should fix a longstanding, if minor, issue in all 64-bit kernels
as well as a potential regression in the TLS hardening code.

Fixes: 41bdc78544b8 x86/tls: Validate TLS entries to protect espfix
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc: torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/72a059de55e86ad5e2935c80aa91880ddf19d07c.1421954363.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h | 9 ++-------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h
index 50d033a..fc237fd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h
@@ -251,7 +251,8 @@ static inline void native_load_tls(struct thread_struct *t, unsigned int cpu)
 		gdt[GDT_ENTRY_TLS_MIN + i] = t->tls_array[i];
 }
 
-#define _LDT_empty(info)				\
+/* This intentionally ignores lm, since 32-bit apps don't have that field. */
+#define LDT_empty(info)					\
 	((info)->base_addr		== 0	&&	\
 	 (info)->limit			== 0	&&	\
 	 (info)->contents		== 0	&&	\
@@ -261,12 +262,6 @@ static inline void native_load_tls(struct thread_struct *t, unsigned int cpu)
 	 (info)->seg_not_present	== 1	&&	\
 	 (info)->useable		== 0)
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
-#define LDT_empty(info) (_LDT_empty(info) && ((info)->lm == 0))
-#else
-#define LDT_empty(info) (_LDT_empty(info))
-#endif
-
 static inline void clear_LDT(void)
 {
 	set_ldt(NULL, 0);
-- 
1.9.1

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