[tip:x86/asm] x86/asm/entry/64: Remove a bogus 'ret_from_fork' optimization

From: tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski
Date: Wed Mar 04 2015 - 17:57:37 EST


Commit-ID: 1e3fbb8a1d814f35e2e689cf87714d38d9f3564d
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/1e3fbb8a1d814f35e2e689cf87714d38d9f3564d
Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 14:40:39 -0800
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 22:50:53 +0100

x86/asm/entry/64: Remove a bogus 'ret_from_fork' optimization

'ret_from_fork' checks TIF_IA32 to determine whether 'pt_regs' and
the related state make sense for 'ret_from_sys_call'. This is
entirely the wrong check. TS_COMPAT would make a little more
sense, but there's really no point in keeping this optimization
at all.

This fixes a return to the wrong user CS if we came from int
0x80 in a 64-bit task.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4710be56d76ef994ddf59087aad98c000fbab9a4.1424989793.git.luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S | 13 ++++++++-----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
index bc15278..622ce42 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -550,11 +550,14 @@ ENTRY(ret_from_fork)
testl $3,CS(%rsp) # from kernel_thread?
jz 1f

- testl $_TIF_IA32, TI_flags(%rcx) # 32-bit compat task needs IRET
- jnz int_ret_from_sys_call
-
- RESTORE_TOP_OF_STACK %rdi
- jmp ret_from_sys_call # go to the SYSRET fastpath
+ /*
+ * By the time we get here, we have no idea whether our pt_regs,
+ * ti flags, and ti status came from the 64-bit SYSCALL fast path,
+ * the slow path, or one of the ia32entry paths.
+ * Use int_ret_from_sys_call to return, since it can safely handle
+ * all of the above.
+ */
+ jmp int_ret_from_sys_call

1:
movq %rbp, %rdi
--
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