Andy Lutomirski fa2016a8e7 x86/xen/64: Fix the reported SS and CS in SYSCALL
When I cleaned up the Xen SYSCALL entries, I inadvertently changed
the reported segment registers.  Before my patch, regs->ss was
__USER(32)_DS and regs->cs was __USER(32)_CS.  After the patch, they
are FLAT_USER_CS/DS(32).

This had a couple unfortunate effects.  It confused the
opportunistic fast return logic.  It also significantly increased
the risk of triggering a nasty glibc bug:

  https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21269

Update the Xen entry code to change it back.

Reported-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Fixes: 8a9949bc71 ("x86/xen/64: Rearrange the SYSCALL entries")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/daba8351ea2764bb30272296ab9ce08a81bd8264.1502775273.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-08-15 10:10:58 +02:00
2017-08-06 18:44:49 -07:00

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