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authorDavid S. Miller2015-08-13 16:23:11 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller2015-08-13 16:23:11 -0700
commit182ad468e70fc7e8ff2e5d64344c690beaa00ddd (patch)
treeaf0b9b8da89ed03629c71f6829845c301485d289 /arch/x86/include
parente8fed985d7bd6cda695e196028b54a5f3d2d91bb (diff)
parent5b3e2e14eaa2a98232a4f292341fb88438685734 (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts: drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/Kconfig The cavium conflict was overlapping dependency changes. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h15
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/mmu.h3
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h54
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/sigcontext.h6
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext.h21
5 files changed, 56 insertions, 43 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h
index a0bf89fd2647..4e10d73cf018 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h
@@ -280,21 +280,6 @@ static inline void clear_LDT(void)
set_ldt(NULL, 0);
}
-/*
- * load one particular LDT into the current CPU
- */
-static inline void load_LDT_nolock(mm_context_t *pc)
-{
- set_ldt(pc->ldt, pc->size);
-}
-
-static inline void load_LDT(mm_context_t *pc)
-{
- preempt_disable();
- load_LDT_nolock(pc);
- preempt_enable();
-}
-
static inline unsigned long get_desc_base(const struct desc_struct *desc)
{
return (unsigned)(desc->base0 | ((desc->base1) << 16) | ((desc->base2) << 24));
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu.h
index 09b9620a73b4..364d27481a52 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu.h
@@ -9,8 +9,7 @@
* we put the segment information here.
*/
typedef struct {
- void *ldt;
- int size;
+ struct ldt_struct *ldt;
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
/* True if mm supports a task running in 32 bit compatibility mode. */
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h
index 804a3a6030ca..984abfe47edc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h
@@ -34,6 +34,50 @@ static inline void load_mm_cr4(struct mm_struct *mm) {}
#endif
/*
+ * ldt_structs can be allocated, used, and freed, but they are never
+ * modified while live.
+ */
+struct ldt_struct {
+ /*
+ * Xen requires page-aligned LDTs with special permissions. This is
+ * needed to prevent us from installing evil descriptors such as
+ * call gates. On native, we could merge the ldt_struct and LDT
+ * allocations, but it's not worth trying to optimize.
+ */
+ struct desc_struct *entries;
+ int size;
+};
+
+static inline void load_mm_ldt(struct mm_struct *mm)
+{
+ struct ldt_struct *ldt;
+
+ /* lockless_dereference synchronizes with smp_store_release */
+ ldt = lockless_dereference(mm->context.ldt);
+
+ /*
+ * Any change to mm->context.ldt is followed by an IPI to all
+ * CPUs with the mm active. The LDT will not be freed until
+ * after the IPI is handled by all such CPUs. This means that,
+ * if the ldt_struct changes before we return, the values we see
+ * will be safe, and the new values will be loaded before we run
+ * any user code.
+ *
+ * NB: don't try to convert this to use RCU without extreme care.
+ * We would still need IRQs off, because we don't want to change
+ * the local LDT after an IPI loaded a newer value than the one
+ * that we can see.
+ */
+
+ if (unlikely(ldt))
+ set_ldt(ldt->entries, ldt->size);
+ else
+ clear_LDT();
+
+ DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(preemptible());
+}
+
+/*
* Used for LDT copy/destruction.
*/
int init_new_context(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm);
@@ -78,12 +122,12 @@ static inline void switch_mm(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next,
* was called and then modify_ldt changed
* prev->context.ldt but suppressed an IPI to this CPU.
* In this case, prev->context.ldt != NULL, because we
- * never free an LDT while the mm still exists. That
- * means that next->context.ldt != prev->context.ldt,
- * because mms never share an LDT.
+ * never set context.ldt to NULL while the mm still
+ * exists. That means that next->context.ldt !=
+ * prev->context.ldt, because mms never share an LDT.
*/
if (unlikely(prev->context.ldt != next->context.ldt))
- load_LDT_nolock(&next->context);
+ load_mm_ldt(next);
}
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
else {
@@ -106,7 +150,7 @@ static inline void switch_mm(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next,
load_cr3(next->pgd);
trace_tlb_flush(TLB_FLUSH_ON_TASK_SWITCH, TLB_FLUSH_ALL);
load_mm_cr4(next);
- load_LDT_nolock(&next->context);
+ load_mm_ldt(next);
}
}
#endif
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/sigcontext.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/sigcontext.h
index 6fe6b182c998..9dfce4e0417d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/sigcontext.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/sigcontext.h
@@ -57,9 +57,9 @@ struct sigcontext {
unsigned long ip;
unsigned long flags;
unsigned short cs;
- unsigned short __pad2; /* Was called gs, but was always zero. */
- unsigned short __pad1; /* Was called fs, but was always zero. */
- unsigned short ss;
+ unsigned short gs;
+ unsigned short fs;
+ unsigned short __pad0;
unsigned long err;
unsigned long trapno;
unsigned long oldmask;
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext.h b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext.h
index 0e8a973de9ee..40836a9a7250 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext.h
@@ -177,24 +177,9 @@ struct sigcontext {
__u64 rip;
__u64 eflags; /* RFLAGS */
__u16 cs;
-
- /*
- * Prior to 2.5.64 ("[PATCH] x86-64 updates for 2.5.64-bk3"),
- * Linux saved and restored fs and gs in these slots. This
- * was counterproductive, as fsbase and gsbase were never
- * saved, so arch_prctl was presumably unreliable.
- *
- * If these slots are ever needed for any other purpose, there
- * is some risk that very old 64-bit binaries could get
- * confused. I doubt that many such binaries still work,
- * though, since the same patch in 2.5.64 also removed the
- * 64-bit set_thread_area syscall, so it appears that there is
- * no TLS API that works in both pre- and post-2.5.64 kernels.
- */
- __u16 __pad2; /* Was gs. */
- __u16 __pad1; /* Was fs. */
-
- __u16 ss;
+ __u16 gs;
+ __u16 fs;
+ __u16 __pad0;
__u64 err;
__u64 trapno;
__u64 oldmask;