x86/tls: Validate TLS entries to protect espfix
commit 41bdc785 upstream. Installing a 16-bit RW data segment into the GDT defeats espfix. AFAICT this will not affect glibc, Wine, or dosemu at all. 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: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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