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| author | Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> | 2019-12-19 06:58:12 -0500 |
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| committer | Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> | 2020-01-08 19:40:51 +0100 |
| commit | 2b10906f2d25515bba58070b8183babc89063597 (patch) | |
| tree | 9b6a4c28c47d3bbd438f0264a2ccb693471ee652 /arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h | |
| parent | f444a5ff95dce07cf4353cbb85fc3e785019d430 (diff) | |
x86: Remove force_iret()
force_iret() was originally intended to prevent the return to user mode with
the SYSRET or SYSEXIT instructions, in cases where the register state could
have been changed to be incompatible with those instructions. The entry code
has been significantly reworked since then, and register state is validated
before SYSRET or SYSEXIT are used. force_iret() no longer serves its original
purpose and can be eliminated.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191219115812.102620-1-brgerst@gmail.com
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h | 9 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h index d779366ce3f8..cf4327986e98 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h @@ -239,15 +239,6 @@ static inline int arch_within_stack_frames(const void * const stack, current_thread_info()->status & TS_COMPAT) #endif -/* - * Force syscall return via IRET by making it look as if there was - * some work pending. IRET is our most capable (but slowest) syscall - * return path, which is able to restore modified SS, CS and certain - * EFLAGS values that other (fast) syscall return instructions - * are not able to restore properly. - */ -#define force_iret() set_thread_flag(TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME) - extern void arch_task_cache_init(void); extern int arch_dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *dst, struct task_struct *src); extern void arch_release_task_struct(struct task_struct *tsk); |