Commit 246f2d2e authored by H. Peter Anvin's avatar H. Peter Anvin

x86-32, espfix: Remove filter for espfix32 due to race

It is not safe to use LAR to filter when to go down the espfix path,
because the LDT is per-process (rather than per-thread) and another
thread might change the descriptors behind our back.  Fortunately it
is always *safe* (if a bit slow) to go down the espfix path, and a
32-bit LDT stack segment is extremely rare.
Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398816946-3351-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # consider after upstream merge
parent 3891a04a
......@@ -551,11 +551,6 @@ ENTRY(iret_exc)
CFI_RESTORE_STATE
ldt_ss:
larl PT_OLDSS(%esp), %eax
jnz restore_nocheck
testl $0x00400000, %eax # returning to 32bit stack?
jnz restore_nocheck # allright, normal return
#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT
/*
* The kernel can't run on a non-flat stack if paravirt mode
......
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