On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 02:52:24PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> Without this change, it is still not possible to get rid of
> PER_CPU_VAR(old_rsp) usage in switch_to: if preemption happens
> while we did not fetch PER_CPU_VAR(old_rsp) and stored it in pt_regs->sp,
> PER_CPU_VAR(old_rsp) gets corrupted by other task's user sp.
>
> Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlas...@redhat.com>
> CC: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
> CC: Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org>
> CC: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
> CC: Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de>
> CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <h...@zytor.com>
> CC: Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net>
> CC: Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com>
> CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com>
> CC: Alexei Starovoitov <a...@plumgrid.com>
> CC: Will Drewry <w...@chromium.org>
> CC: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org>
> CC: x...@kernel.org
> CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> ---
>
> Changes since v1: don't try to be clever and use CLBR_RAX
>
> arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S | 10 +++++-----
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
Reported-and-tested-by: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de>
Thanks Denys!
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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