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authorAndy Lutomirski <[email protected]>2015-07-30 14:31:32 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <[email protected]>2015-07-31 10:23:23 +0200
commit37868fe113ff2ba814b3b4eb12df214df555f8dc (patch)
treed1fccfadb516fbc97393b67d10385f0b7b17289e /drivers/base/firmware_class.c
parentaa1acff356bbedfd03b544051f5b371746735d89 (diff)
x86/ldt: Make modify_ldt synchronous
modify_ldt() has questionable locking and does not synchronize threads. Improve it: redesign the locking and synchronize all threads' LDTs using an IPI on all modifications. This will dramatically slow down modify_ldt in multithreaded programs, but there shouldn't be any multithreaded programs that care about modify_ldt's performance in the first place. This fixes some fallout from the CVE-2015-5157 fixes. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Cooper <[email protected]> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> Cc: Jan Beulich <[email protected]> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Sasha Levin <[email protected]> Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Cc: xen-devel <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4c6978476782160600471bd865b318db34c7b628.1438291540.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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