[tip:x86/asm] x86/segments/64: When load_gs_index fails, clear the base

From: tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski
Date: Fri Apr 29 2016 - 06:50:59 EST


Commit-ID: b038c842b385f1470f991078e71b7c5b084a7341
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/b038c842b385f1470f991078e71b7c5b084a7341
Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 12:23:27 -0700
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 11:56:41 +0200

x86/segments/64: When load_gs_index fails, clear the base

On AMD CPUs, a failed load_gs_base currently may not clear the FS
base. Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1a6c4d3a8a4e7be79ba448b42685e0321d50c14c.1461698311.git.luto@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
index 1693c17..6344629 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
@@ -794,6 +794,12 @@ END(native_load_gs_index)
/* running with kernelgs */
bad_gs:
SWAPGS /* switch back to user gs */
+.macro ZAP_GS
+ /* This can't be a string because the preprocessor needs to see it. */
+ movl $__USER_DS, %eax
+ movl %eax, %gs
+.endm
+ ALTERNATIVE "", "ZAP_GS", X86_BUG_NULL_SEG
xorl %eax, %eax
movl %eax, %gs
jmp 2b