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author | Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> | 2017-12-04 15:07:29 +0100 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2017-12-17 14:27:52 +0100 |
commit | c482feefe1aeb150156248ba0fd3e029bc886605 (patch) | |
tree | 41e3c0c88f477adacb911da988925c87dc4e3a89 /arch/x86/lib | |
parent | 0f9a48100fba3f189724ae88a450c2261bf91c80 (diff) | |
download | linux-c482feefe1aeb150156248ba0fd3e029bc886605.tar.bz2 |
x86/entry/64: Make cpu_entry_area.tss read-only
The TSS is a fairly juicy target for exploits, and, now that the TSS
is in the cpu_entry_area, it's no longer protected by kASLR. Make it
read-only on x86_64.
On x86_32, it can't be RO because it's written by the CPU during task
switches, and we use a task gate for double faults. I'd also be
nervous about errata if we tried to make it RO even on configurations
without double fault handling.
[ tglx: AMD confirmed that there is no problem on 64-bit with TSS RO. So
it's probably safe to assume that it's a non issue, though Intel
might have been creative in that area. Still waiting for
confirmation. ]
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bpetkov@suse.de>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.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: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: aliguori@amazon.com
Cc: daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at
Cc: hughd@google.com
Cc: keescook@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171204150606.733700132@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/lib')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/lib/delay.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/delay.c b/arch/x86/lib/delay.c index 553f8fd23cc4..4846eff7e4c8 100644 --- a/arch/x86/lib/delay.c +++ b/arch/x86/lib/delay.c @@ -107,10 +107,10 @@ static void delay_mwaitx(unsigned long __loops) delay = min_t(u64, MWAITX_MAX_LOOPS, loops); /* - * Use cpu_tss as a cacheline-aligned, seldomly + * Use cpu_tss_rw as a cacheline-aligned, seldomly * accessed per-cpu variable as the monitor target. */ - __monitorx(raw_cpu_ptr(&cpu_tss), 0, 0); + __monitorx(raw_cpu_ptr(&cpu_tss_rw), 0, 0); /* * AMD, like Intel, supports the EAX hint and EAX=0xf |