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[3.16.y-ckt,stable] Patch "x86/iopl: Fix iopl capability check on Xen PV" has been added to the 3.16.y-ckt tree

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Luis Henriques April 11, 2016, 5:23 p.m. UTC
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    x86/iopl: Fix iopl capability check on Xen PV

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt27.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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From 198fbce913ae70903ab2c24f3dd0b152e5c68624 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 14:14:22 -0700
Subject: x86/iopl: Fix iopl capability check on Xen PV

commit c29016cf41fe9fa994a5ecca607cf5f1cd98801e upstream.

iopl(3) is supposed to work if iopl is already 3, even if
unprivileged.  This didn't work right on Xen PV.  Fix it.

Reviewewd-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
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: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8ce12013e6e4c0a44a97e316be4a6faff31bd5ea.1458162709.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/ioport.c | 12 +++++++++---
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ioport.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ioport.c
index 4ddaf66ea35f..792621a32457 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ioport.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ioport.c
@@ -96,9 +96,14 @@  asmlinkage long sys_ioperm(unsigned long from, unsigned long num, int turn_on)
 SYSCALL_DEFINE1(iopl, unsigned int, level)
 {
 	struct pt_regs *regs = current_pt_regs();
-	unsigned int old = (regs->flags >> 12) & 3;
 	struct thread_struct *t = &current->thread;

+	/*
+	 * Careful: the IOPL bits in regs->flags are undefined under Xen PV
+	 * and changing them has no effect.
+	 */
+	unsigned int old = t->iopl >> X86_EFLAGS_IOPL_BIT;
+
 	if (level > 3)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	/* Trying to gain more privileges? */
@@ -106,8 +111,9 @@  SYSCALL_DEFINE1(iopl, unsigned int, level)
 		if (!capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO))
 			return -EPERM;
 	}
-	regs->flags = (regs->flags & ~X86_EFLAGS_IOPL) | (level << 12);
-	t->iopl = level << 12;
+	regs->flags = (regs->flags & ~X86_EFLAGS_IOPL) |
+		(level << X86_EFLAGS_IOPL_BIT);
+	t->iopl = level << X86_EFLAGS_IOPL_BIT;
 	set_iopl_mask(t->iopl);

 	return 0;