linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.2 085/221] x86/asm/entry/64: Remove a bogus 'ret_from

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Date:	Tue, 05 May 2015 02:16:39 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, "Denys Vlasenko" <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Andy Lutomirski" <luto@...capital.net>,
	"Oleg Nesterov" <oleg@...hat.com>,
	"Borislav Petkov" <bp@...en8.de>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...nel.org>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3.2 085/221] x86/asm/entry/64: Remove a bogus
 'ret_from_fork' optimization

3.2.69-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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

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

commit 956421fbb74c3a6261903f3836c0740187cf038b upstream.

'ret_from_fork' checks TIF_IA32 to determine whether 'pt_regs' and
the related state make sense for 'ret_from_sys_call'.  This is
entirely the wrong check.  TS_COMPAT would make a little more
sense, but there's really no point in keeping this optimization
at all.

This fixes a return to the wrong user CS if we came from int
0x80 in a 64-bit task.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4710be56d76ef994ddf59087aad98c000fbab9a4.1424989793.git.luto@amacapital.net
[ Backported from tip:x86/asm. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S | 13 ++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -414,11 +414,14 @@ ENTRY(ret_from_fork)
 	testl $3, CS-ARGOFFSET(%rsp)		# from kernel_thread?
 	je   int_ret_from_sys_call
 
-	testl $_TIF_IA32, TI_flags(%rcx)	# 32-bit compat task needs IRET
-	jnz  int_ret_from_sys_call
-
-	RESTORE_TOP_OF_STACK %rdi, -ARGOFFSET
-	jmp ret_from_sys_call			# go to the SYSRET fastpath
+	/*
+	 * By the time we get here, we have no idea whether our pt_regs,
+	 * ti flags, and ti status came from the 64-bit SYSCALL fast path,
+	 * the slow path, or one of the ia32entry paths.
+	 * Use int_ret_from_sys_call to return, since it can safely handle
+	 * all of the above.
+	 */
+	jmp  int_ret_from_sys_call
 
 	CFI_ENDPROC
 END(ret_from_fork)

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