x86/ldt: Prevent LDT inheritance on exec

The LDT is inherited across fork() or exec(), but that makes no sense
at all because exec() is supposed to start the process clean.

The reason why this happens is that init_new_context_ldt() is called from
init_new_context() which obviously needs to be called for both fork() and
exec().

It would be surprising if anything relies on that behaviour, so it seems to
be safe to remove that misfeature.

Split the context initialization into two parts. Clear the LDT pointer and
initialize the mutex from the general context init and move the LDT
duplication to arch_dup_mmap() which is only called on fork().

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirsky <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bpetkov@suse.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@amazon.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: aliguori@amazon.com
Cc: dan.j.williams@intel.com
Cc: hughd@google.com
Cc: keescook@google.com
Cc: kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
index 1600aebc1ec7..a6b5d62f45a7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
@@ -131,28 +131,20 @@ static void free_ldt_struct(struct ldt_struct *ldt)
 }
 
 /*
- * we do not have to muck with descriptors here, that is
- * done in switch_mm() as needed.
+ * Called on fork from arch_dup_mmap(). Just copy the current LDT state,
+ * the new task is not running, so nothing can be installed.
  */
-int init_new_context_ldt(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm)
+int ldt_dup_context(struct mm_struct *old_mm, struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
 	struct ldt_struct *new_ldt;
-	struct mm_struct *old_mm;
 	int retval = 0;
 
-	init_rwsem(&mm->context.ldt_usr_sem);
-
-	old_mm = current->mm;
-	if (!old_mm) {
-		mm->context.ldt = NULL;
+	if (!old_mm)
 		return 0;
-	}
 
 	mutex_lock(&old_mm->context.lock);
-	if (!old_mm->context.ldt) {
-		mm->context.ldt = NULL;
+	if (!old_mm->context.ldt)
 		goto out_unlock;
-	}
 
 	new_ldt = alloc_ldt_struct(old_mm->context.ldt->nr_entries);
 	if (!new_ldt) {