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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>2017-12-04 15:07:27 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-12-17 14:27:51 +0100
commit7fbbd5cbebf118a9e09f5453f686656a167c3d1c (patch)
tree93baa3bc3d3dd933d75ba5336674e78e3f328b7b /arch
parent40e7f949e0d9a33968ebde5d67f7e3a47c97742a (diff)
x86/entry/64: Remove the SYSENTER stack canary
Now that the SYSENTER stack has a guard page, there's no need for a canary to detect overflow after the fact. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bpetkov@suse.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@amazon.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: aliguori@amazon.com Cc: daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at Cc: hughd@google.com Cc: keescook@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171204150606.572577316@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h1
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c3
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/process.c1
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/traps.c7
4 files changed, 1 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
index b0cf0612a454..d34ac13c5866 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -341,7 +341,6 @@ struct tss_struct {
* Space for the temporary SYSENTER stack, used for SYSENTER
* and the entry trampoline as well.
*/
- unsigned long SYSENTER_stack_canary;
unsigned long SYSENTER_stack[64];
/*
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
index 60267850125e..ae1ce2e3f132 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
@@ -48,8 +48,7 @@ bool in_sysenter_stack(unsigned long *stack, struct stack_info *info)
int cpu = smp_processor_id();
struct tss_struct *tss = &get_cpu_entry_area(cpu)->tss;
- /* Treat the canary as part of the stack for unwinding purposes. */
- void *begin = &tss->SYSENTER_stack_canary;
+ void *begin = &tss->SYSENTER_stack;
void *end = (void *)&tss->SYSENTER_stack + sizeof(tss->SYSENTER_stack);
if ((void *)stack < begin || (void *)stack >= end)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
index 86e83762e3b3..6a04287f222b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
@@ -81,7 +81,6 @@ __visible DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(struct tss_struct, cpu_tss) = {
*/
.io_bitmap = { [0 ... IO_BITMAP_LONGS] = ~0 },
#endif
- .SYSENTER_stack_canary = STACK_END_MAGIC,
};
EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(cpu_tss);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
index 3e29aad5c7cc..5ade4f89a6d1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
@@ -814,13 +814,6 @@ dotraplinkage void do_debug(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code)
debug_stack_usage_dec();
exit:
- /*
- * This is the most likely code path that involves non-trivial use
- * of the SYSENTER stack. Check that we haven't overrun it.
- */
- WARN(this_cpu_read(cpu_tss.SYSENTER_stack_canary) != STACK_END_MAGIC,
- "Overran or corrupted SYSENTER stack\n");
-
ist_exit(regs);
}
NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(do_debug);