From: Andy Lutomirski If something goes wrong with pagetable setup, vsyscall=native will accidentally fall back to emulation. Make it warn and fail so that we notice. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: David Laight Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra --- arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) Index: tip/arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c =================================================================== --- tip.orig/arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c +++ tip/arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c @@ -138,6 +138,10 @@ bool emulate_vsyscall(struct pt_regs *re WARN_ON_ONCE(address != regs->ip); + /* This should be unreachable in NATIVE mode. */ + if (WARN_ON(vsyscall_mode == NATIVE)) + return false; + if (vsyscall_mode == NONE) { warn_bad_vsyscall(KERN_INFO, regs, "vsyscall attempted with vsyscall=none");