x86_64: Ignore compat mode SYSCALL when IA32_EMULATION is not defined
authorAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:29:25 +0000 (02:29 +0200)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 23 Jun 2007 01:41:19 +0000 (18:41 -0700)
Previously a program could switch to a compat mode segment and then
execute SYSCALL and it would jump to an uninitialized MSR and crash
the kernel.

Instead supply a dummy target for this case.

Pointed out by Jan Beulich

Cc: jbeulich@novell.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
arch/x86_64/kernel/entry.S
arch/x86_64/kernel/setup64.c

index fa984b53e7e6c8e0d0118b5ef195b276c4adfcc7..a67f87bf4015a4072ae1ec9876b07f1f8555a790 100644 (file)
@@ -1163,3 +1163,10 @@ ENTRY(call_softirq)
        ret
        CFI_ENDPROC
 ENDPROC(call_softirq)
+
+KPROBE_ENTRY(ignore_sysret)
+       CFI_STARTPROC
+       mov $-ENOSYS,%eax
+       sysret
+       CFI_ENDPROC
+ENDPROC(ignore_sysret)
index 64379a80d76320718b07248560b82fd943f3297b..1200aaac403e8f98c20a888c5d7d9455736e0391 100644 (file)
@@ -150,6 +150,8 @@ void pda_init(int cpu)
 char boot_exception_stacks[(N_EXCEPTION_STACKS - 1) * EXCEPTION_STKSZ + DEBUG_STKSZ]
 __attribute__((section(".bss.page_aligned")));
 
+extern asmlinkage void ignore_sysret(void);
+
 /* May not be marked __init: used by software suspend */
 void syscall_init(void)
 {
@@ -160,6 +162,7 @@ void syscall_init(void)
         */ 
        wrmsrl(MSR_STAR,  ((u64)__USER32_CS)<<48  | ((u64)__KERNEL_CS)<<32); 
        wrmsrl(MSR_LSTAR, system_call); 
+       wrmsrl(MSR_CSTAR, ignore_sysret);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION                   
        syscall32_cpu_init ();