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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>2016-04-26 12:23:28 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-04-29 11:56:41 +0200
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x86/arch_prctl/64: Remove FSBASE/GSBASE < 4G optimization
As far as I know, the optimization doesn't work on any modern distro because modern distros use high addresses for ASLR. Remove it. The ptrace code was either wrong or very strange, but the behavior with this patch should be essentially identical to the behavior without this patch unless user code goes out of its way to mislead ptrace. On newer CPUs, once the FSGSBASE instructions are enabled, we won't want to use the optimized variant anyway. This isn't actually much of a performance regression, it has no effect on normal dynamically linked programs, and it's a considerably simplification. It also removes some nasty special cases from code that is already way too full of special cases for comfort. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/dd1599b08866961dba9d2458faa6bbd7fba471d7.1461698311.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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