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Andy Lutomirski 61f01dd941 x86_64, asm: Work around AMD SYSRET SS descriptor attribute issue
AMD CPUs don't reinitialize the SS descriptor on SYSRET, so SYSRET with
SS == 0 results in an invalid usermode state in which SS is apparently
equal to __USER_DS but causes #SS if used.

Work around the issue by setting SS to __KERNEL_DS __switch_to, thus
ensuring that SYSRET never happens with SS set to NULL.

This was exposed by a recent vDSO cleanup.

Fixes: e7d6eefaaa x86/vdso32/syscall.S: Do not load __USER32_DS to %ss
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-04-26 17:57:38 -07:00
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asm x86_64, asm: Work around AMD SYSRET SS descriptor attribute issue 2015-04-26 17:57:38 -07:00
uapi/asm Char/Misc driver patches for 4.1-rc1 2015-04-21 09:42:58 -07:00