linux-kernel - [tip: x86/urgent] x86/cpu_entry_area: Add guard page for entry stack on 32bit

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Message-ID: <157436726577.21853.4056267798286577890.tip-bot2@tip-bot2>
Date:   Thu, 21 Nov 2019 20:14:25 -0000
From:   "tip-bot2 for Thomas Gleixner" <tip-bot2@...utronix.de>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>, stable@...nel.org,
        x86 <x86@...nel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [tip: x86/urgent] x86/cpu_entry_area: Add guard page for entry stack on 32bit

The following commit has been merged into the x86/urgent branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     880a98c339961eaa074393e3a2117cbe9125b8bb
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/880a98c339961eaa074393e3a2117cbe9125b8bb
Author:        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
AuthorDate:    Thu, 21 Nov 2019 00:40:24 +01:00
Committer:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
CommitterDate: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 19:37:43 +01:00

x86/cpu_entry_area: Add guard page for entry stack on 32bit

The entry stack in the cpu entry area is protected against overflow by the
readonly GDT on 64-bit, but on 32-bit the GDT needs to be writeable and
therefore does not trigger a fault on stack overflow.

Add a guard page.

Fixes: c482feefe1ae ("x86/entry/64: Make cpu_entry_area.tss read-only")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: stable@...nel.org
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/cpu_entry_area.h | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpu_entry_area.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpu_entry_area.h
index 8348f7d..905d89c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpu_entry_area.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpu_entry_area.h
@@ -78,8 +78,12 @@ struct cpu_entry_area {
 
 	/*
 	 * The GDT is just below entry_stack and thus serves (on x86_64) as
-	 * a a read-only guard page.
+	 * a read-only guard page. On 32-bit the GDT must be writeable, so
+	 * it needs an extra guard page.
 	 */
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
+	char guard_entry_stack[PAGE_SIZE];
+#endif
 	struct entry_stack_page entry_stack_page;
 
 	/*