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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>2015-07-31 00:31:32 +0300
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-07-31 11:23:23 +0300
commit37868fe113ff2ba814b3b4eb12df214df555f8dc (patch)
treed1fccfadb516fbc97393b67d10385f0b7b17289e /arch/x86/kernel/step.c
parentaa1acff356bbedfd03b544051f5b371746735d89 (diff)
downloadlinux-37868fe113ff2ba814b3b4eb12df214df555f8dc.tar.xz
x86/ldt: Make modify_ldt synchronous
modify_ldt() has questionable locking and does not synchronize threads. Improve it: redesign the locking and synchronize all threads' LDTs using an IPI on all modifications. This will dramatically slow down modify_ldt in multithreaded programs, but there shouldn't be any multithreaded programs that care about modify_ldt's performance in the first place. This fixes some fallout from the CVE-2015-5157 fixes. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: security@kernel.org <security@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4c6978476782160600471bd865b318db34c7b628.1438291540.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/step.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/step.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/step.c b/arch/x86/kernel/step.c
index 9b4d51d0c0d0..6273324186ac 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/step.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/step.c
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/ptrace.h>
#include <asm/desc.h>
+#include <asm/mmu_context.h>
unsigned long convert_ip_to_linear(struct task_struct *child, struct pt_regs *regs)
{
@@ -30,10 +31,11 @@ unsigned long convert_ip_to_linear(struct task_struct *child, struct pt_regs *re
seg &= ~7UL;
mutex_lock(&child->mm->context.lock);
- if (unlikely((seg >> 3) >= child->mm->context.size))
+ if (unlikely(!child->mm->context.ldt ||
+ (seg >> 3) >= child->mm->context.ldt->size))
addr = -1L; /* bogus selector, access would fault */
else {
- desc = child->mm->context.ldt + seg;
+ desc = &child->mm->context.ldt->entries[seg];
base = get_desc_base(desc);
/* 16-bit code segment? */