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| author | Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> | 2017-12-04 15:07:27 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2017-12-17 14:27:51 +0100 |
| commit | 7fbbd5cbebf118a9e09f5453f686656a167c3d1c (patch) | |
| tree | 93baa3bc3d3dd933d75ba5336674e78e3f328b7b /arch/x86 | |
| parent | 40e7f949e0d9a33968ebde5d67f7e3a47c97742a (diff) | |
| download | linux-7fbbd5cbebf118a9e09f5453f686656a167c3d1c.tar.bz2 | |
x86/entry/64: Remove the SYSENTER stack canary
Now that the SYSENTER stack has a guard page, there's no need for a canary
to detect overflow after the fact.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
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: 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/20171204150606.572577316@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/traps.c | 7 |
4 files changed, 1 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h index b0cf0612a454..d34ac13c5866 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h @@ -341,7 +341,6 @@ struct tss_struct { * Space for the temporary SYSENTER stack, used for SYSENTER * and the entry trampoline as well. */ - unsigned long SYSENTER_stack_canary; unsigned long SYSENTER_stack[64]; /* diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c index 60267850125e..ae1ce2e3f132 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c @@ -48,8 +48,7 @@ bool in_sysenter_stack(unsigned long *stack, struct stack_info *info) int cpu = smp_processor_id(); struct tss_struct *tss = &get_cpu_entry_area(cpu)->tss; - /* Treat the canary as part of the stack for unwinding purposes. */ - void *begin = &tss->SYSENTER_stack_canary; + void *begin = &tss->SYSENTER_stack; void *end = (void *)&tss->SYSENTER_stack + sizeof(tss->SYSENTER_stack); if ((void *)stack < begin || (void *)stack >= end) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c index 86e83762e3b3..6a04287f222b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c @@ -81,7 +81,6 @@ __visible DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(struct tss_struct, cpu_tss) = { */ .io_bitmap = { [0 ... IO_BITMAP_LONGS] = ~0 }, #endif - .SYSENTER_stack_canary = STACK_END_MAGIC, }; EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(cpu_tss); diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c index 3e29aad5c7cc..5ade4f89a6d1 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c @@ -814,13 +814,6 @@ dotraplinkage void do_debug(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code) debug_stack_usage_dec(); exit: - /* - * This is the most likely code path that involves non-trivial use - * of the SYSENTER stack. Check that we haven't overrun it. - */ - WARN(this_cpu_read(cpu_tss.SYSENTER_stack_canary) != STACK_END_MAGIC, - "Overran or corrupted SYSENTER stack\n"); - ist_exit(regs); } NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(do_debug); |