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x86/tls: Disallow unusual TLS segments
authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Fri, 5 Dec 2014 00:48:17 +0000 (16:48 -0800)
committerZefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Tue, 14 Apr 2015 09:33:46 +0000 (17:33 +0800)
commit3a0dc1134f3f6984b07d232e14121de7296cb3ba
tree6df965046cbd3332aa027420ecbe70ab3a7dbbe6
parent0d030473658c7760c4cdd4fd0cc61e287b6023b3
x86/tls: Disallow unusual TLS segments

commit 0e58af4e1d2166e9e33375a0f121e4867010d4f8 upstream.

Users have no business installing custom code segments into the
GDT, and segments that are not present but are otherwise valid
are a historical source of interesting attacks.

For completeness, block attempts to set the L bit.  (Prior to
this patch, the L bit would have been silently dropped.)

This is an ABI break.  I've checked glibc, musl, and Wine, and
none of them look like they'll have any trouble.

Note to stable maintainers: this is a hardening patch that fixes
no known bugs.  Given the possibility of ABI issues, this
probably shouldn't be backported quickly.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: security@kernel.org <security@kernel.org>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
arch/x86/kernel/tls.c