From 37868fe113ff2ba814b3b4eb12df214df555f8dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 14:31:32 -0700 Subject: 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 Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov Cc: Andrew Cooper Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Jan Beulich Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Sasha Levin Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: security@kernel.org Cc: Cc: xen-devel Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4c6978476782160600471bd865b318db34c7b628.1438291540.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c index 71d7849a07f7..f6b916387590 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c @@ -121,11 +121,11 @@ void __show_regs(struct pt_regs *regs, int all) void release_thread(struct task_struct *dead_task) { if (dead_task->mm) { - if (dead_task->mm->context.size) { + if (dead_task->mm->context.ldt) { pr_warn("WARNING: dead process %s still has LDT? <%p/%d>\n", dead_task->comm, dead_task->mm->context.ldt, - dead_task->mm->context.size); + dead_task->mm->context.ldt->size); BUG(); } } -- cgit v1.2.3