From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756192AbaIKNGI (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2014 09:06:08 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:52280 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754499AbaIKNEr (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2014 09:04:47 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Greg Kroah-Hartman" , "H. Peter Anvin" Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 13:32:14 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.2 123/131] Revert "x86-64, modify_ldt: Make support for 16-bit segments a runtime option" In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.4.249 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.2.63-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: "H. Peter Anvin" commit 7ed6fb9b5a5510e4ef78ab27419184741169978a upstream. This reverts commit fa81511bb0bbb2b1aace3695ce869da9762624ff in preparation of merging in the proper fix (espfix64). Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c | 4 +--- arch/x86/vdso/vdso32-setup.c | 8 -------- 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 11 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c @@ -21,8 +21,6 @@ #include #include -int sysctl_ldt16 = 0; - #ifdef CONFIG_SMP static void flush_ldt(void *current_mm) { @@ -237,7 +235,7 @@ static int write_ldt(void __user *ptr, u * IRET leaking the high bits of the kernel stack address. */ #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 - if (!ldt_info.seg_32bit && !sysctl_ldt16) { + if (!ldt_info.seg_32bit) { error = -EINVAL; goto out_unlock; } --- a/arch/x86/vdso/vdso32-setup.c +++ b/arch/x86/vdso/vdso32-setup.c @@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ enum { #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 #define vdso_enabled sysctl_vsyscall32 #define arch_setup_additional_pages syscall32_setup_pages -extern int sysctl_ldt16; #endif /* @@ -388,13 +387,6 @@ static ctl_table abi_table2[] = { .maxlen = sizeof(int), .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = proc_dointvec - }, - { - .procname = "ldt16", - .data = &sysctl_ldt16, - .maxlen = sizeof(int), - .mode = 0644, - .proc_handler = proc_dointvec }, {} };