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Message-ID: <20150317142136.GH19645@pd.tnic>
Date:	Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:21:36 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>,
	Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 v2] x86/asm/entry/64: Enable interrupts *after* we
 fetch PER_CPU_VAR(old_rsp)

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 02:52:24PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> Without this change, it is still not possible to get rid of
> PER_CPU_VAR(old_rsp) usage in switch_to: if preemption happens
> while we did not fetch PER_CPU_VAR(old_rsp) and stored it in pt_regs->sp,
> PER_CPU_VAR(old_rsp) gets corrupted by other task's user sp.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>
> CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> CC: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
> CC: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
> CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
> CC: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
> CC: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
> CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
> CC: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>
> CC: Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org>
> CC: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> CC: x86@...nel.org
> CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> ---
> 
> Changes since v1: don't try to be clever and use CLBR_RAX
> 
>  arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S | 10 +++++-----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Reported-and-tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>

Thanks Denys!

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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