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authorChang S. Bae <[email protected]>2020-05-28 16:13:57 -0400
committerThomas Gleixner <[email protected]>2020-06-18 15:47:04 +0200
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x86/entry/64: Handle FSGSBASE enabled paranoid entry/exit
Without FSGSBASE, user space cannot change GSBASE other than through a PRCTL. The kernel enforces that the user space GSBASE value is postive as negative values are used for detecting the kernel space GSBASE value in the paranoid entry code. If FSGSBASE is enabled, user space can set arbitrary GSBASE values without kernel intervention, including negative ones, which breaks the paranoid entry assumptions. To avoid this, paranoid entry needs to unconditionally save the current GSBASE value independent of the interrupted context, retrieve and write the kernel GSBASE and unconditionally restore the saved value on exit. The restore happens either in paranoid_exit or in the special exit path of the NMI low level code. All other entry code pathes which use unconditional SWAPGS are not affected as they do not depend on the actual content. [ tglx: Massaged changelogs and comments ] Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Chang S. Bae <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
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