From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752940AbdHXR70 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Aug 2017 13:59:26 -0400 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:31432 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751168AbdHXR7Y (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Aug 2017 13:59:24 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.41,422,1498546800"; d="scan'208";a="1165828382" Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/mm: fix use-after-free of ldt_struct To: Eric Biggers , x86@kernel.org References: <20170824175029.76040-1-ebiggers3@gmail.com> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Eric Biggers , Andrew Morton , Andy Lutomirski , Borislav Petkov , Brian Gerst , Christoph Hellwig , Denys Vlasenko , Dmitry Vyukov , "H . Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds , Michal Hocko , Peter Zijlstra , Rik van Riel , Tetsuo Handa , Thomas Gleixner , stable@vger.kernel.org From: Dave Hansen Message-ID: <43bcad51-b210-c1fa-c729-471fe008ba61@linux.intel.com> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 10:59:18 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170824175029.76040-1-ebiggers3@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 08/24/2017 10:50 AM, Eric Biggers wrote: > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h > @@ -148,9 +148,7 @@ static inline int init_new_context(struct task_struct *tsk, > mm->context.execute_only_pkey = -1; > } > #endif > - init_new_context_ldt(tsk, mm); > - > - return 0; > + return init_new_context_ldt(tsk, mm); > } Sheesh. That was silly. Thanks for finding and fixing this! Feel free to add my ack on it.