From patchwork Mon Apr 21 09:33:16 2014 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Luis Henriques X-Patchwork-Id: 340716 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from huckleberry.canonical.com (huckleberry.canonical.com [91.189.94.19]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F414C1400D9; Mon, 21 Apr 2014 19:34:53 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=huckleberry.canonical.com) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1WcAcj-0008Le-Pb; Mon, 21 Apr 2014 09:34:49 +0000 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1WcAbG-0007UJ-Bi for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Mon, 21 Apr 2014 09:33:18 +0000 Received: from bl6-53-42.dsl.telepac.pt ([82.155.53.42] helo=localhost) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WcAbG-0003Fw-2R; Mon, 21 Apr 2014 09:33:18 +0000 From: Luis Henriques To: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: [3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "x86-64, modify_ldt: Ban 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels" has been added to staging queue Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 10:33:16 +0100 Message-Id: <1398072796-18036-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.9.1 X-Extended-Stable: 3.11 Cc: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com, Linus Torvalds X-BeenThere: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Kernel team discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com Sender: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled x86-64, modify_ldt: Ban 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Luis ------ From e4c4bd6e2e548f3accc5dc713a372b11e024e520 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 15:31:54 -0700 Subject: x86-64, modify_ldt: Ban 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels commit b3b42ac2cbae1f3cecbb6229964a4d48af31d382 upstream. The IRET instruction, when returning to a 16-bit segment, only restores the bottom 16 bits of the user space stack pointer. We have a software workaround for that ("espfix") for the 32-bit kernel, but it relies on a nonzero stack segment base which is not available in 32-bit mode. Since 16-bit support is somewhat crippled anyway on a 64-bit kernel (no V86 mode), and most (if not quite all) 64-bit processors support virtualization for the users who really need it, simply reject attempts at creating a 16-bit segment when running on top of a 64-bit kernel. Cc: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-kicdm89kzw9lldryb1br9od0@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques --- arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) -- 1.9.1 diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c index ebc9873..af1d14a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c @@ -229,6 +229,17 @@ static int write_ldt(void __user *ptr, unsigned long bytecount, int oldmode) } } + /* + * On x86-64 we do not support 16-bit segments due to + * IRET leaking the high bits of the kernel stack address. + */ +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 + if (!ldt_info.seg_32bit) { + error = -EINVAL; + goto out_unlock; + } +#endif + fill_ldt(&ldt, &ldt_info); if (oldmode) ldt.avl = 0;