Commit c759a579 authored by Andy Lutomirski's avatar Andy Lutomirski Committed by Ben Hutchings

x86/tls: Don't validate lm in set_thread_area() after all

commit 3fb2f423 upstream.

It turns out that there's a lurking ABI issue.  GCC, when
compiling this in a 32-bit program:

struct user_desc desc = {
	.entry_number    = idx,
	.base_addr       = base,
	.limit           = 0xfffff,
	.seg_32bit       = 1,
	.contents        = 0, /* Data, grow-up */
	.read_exec_only  = 0,
	.limit_in_pages  = 1,
	.seg_not_present = 0,
	.useable         = 0,
};

will leave .lm uninitialized.  This means that anything in the
kernel that reads user_desc.lm for 32-bit tasks is unreliable.

Revert the .lm check in set_thread_area().  The value never did
anything in the first place.

Fixes: 0e58af4e ("x86/tls: Disallow unusual TLS segments")
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Acked-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d7875b60e28c512f6a6fc0baf5714d58e7eaadbb.1418856405.git.luto@amacapital.netSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust filename]
Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
parent 0950c54e
......@@ -28,6 +28,13 @@ struct user_desc {
unsigned int seg_not_present:1;
unsigned int useable:1;
#ifdef __x86_64__
/*
* Because this bit is not present in 32-bit user code, user
* programs can pass uninitialized values here. Therefore, in
* any context in which a user_desc comes from a 32-bit program,
* the kernel must act as though lm == 0, regardless of the
* actual value.
*/
unsigned int lm:1;
#endif
};
......
......@@ -56,12 +56,6 @@ static bool tls_desc_okay(const struct user_desc *info)
if (info->seg_not_present)
return false;
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
/* The L bit makes no sense for data. */
if (info->lm)
return false;
#endif
return true;
}
......
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