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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>2014-12-04 16:48:16 -0800
committerStefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>2015-05-29 11:54:12 +0200
commit73023a59cbabb8368b451320cf9245ef42f433f9 (patch)
treef95e4f834496cb36319ca2d2d7ffa066fc4e2617
parent286995d61beaf82d552033efa0b997b13d912d89 (diff)
downloadlinux-2.6.32.y-drm33.z-73023a59cbabb8368b451320cf9245ef42f433f9.tar.gz
x86/tls: Validate TLS entries to protect espfix
commit 41bdc78544b8a93a9c6814b8bbbfef966272abbe upstream Installing a 16-bit RW data segment into the GDT defeats espfix. AFAICT this will not affect glibc, Wine, or dosemu at all. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: security@kernel.org <security@kernel.org> Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/tls.c23
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/tls.c b/arch/x86/kernel/tls.c
index bcfec2d237693..7af73380ae4bc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/tls.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tls.c
@@ -28,6 +28,21 @@ static int get_free_idx(void)
return -ESRCH;
}
+static bool tls_desc_okay(const struct user_desc *info)
+{
+ if (LDT_empty(info))
+ return true;
+
+ /*
+ * espfix is required for 16-bit data segments, but espfix
+ * only works for LDT segments.
+ */
+ if (!info->seg_32bit)
+ return false;
+
+ return true;
+}
+
static void set_tls_desc(struct task_struct *p, int idx,
const struct user_desc *info, int n)
{
@@ -67,6 +82,9 @@ int do_set_thread_area(struct task_struct *p, int idx,
if (copy_from_user(&info, u_info, sizeof(info)))
return -EFAULT;
+ if (!tls_desc_okay(&info))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
if (idx == -1)
idx = info.entry_number;
@@ -197,6 +215,7 @@ int regset_tls_set(struct task_struct *target, const struct user_regset *regset,
{
struct user_desc infobuf[GDT_ENTRY_TLS_ENTRIES];
const struct user_desc *info;
+ int i;
if (pos >= GDT_ENTRY_TLS_ENTRIES * sizeof(struct user_desc) ||
(pos % sizeof(struct user_desc)) != 0 ||
@@ -210,6 +229,10 @@ int regset_tls_set(struct task_struct *target, const struct user_regset *regset,
else
info = infobuf;
+ for (i = 0; i < count / sizeof(struct user_desc); i++)
+ if (!tls_desc_okay(info + i))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
set_tls_desc(target,
GDT_ENTRY_TLS_MIN + (pos / sizeof(struct user_desc)),
info, count / sizeof(struct user_desc));