On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 3:33 PM, tip-bot for Kees Cook <tip...@zytor.com> wrote: > Commit-ID: 4df05f361937ee86e5a8c9ead8aeb6a19ea9b7d7 > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/4df05f361937ee86e5a8c9ead8aeb6a19ea9b7d7 > Author: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> > AuthorDate: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 11:34:41 -0700 > Committer: H. Peter Anvin <h...@linux.intel.com> > CommitDate: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 15:14:48 -0700 > > x86: Make sure IDT is page aligned > > Since the IDT is referenced from a fixmap, make sure it is page aligned. > Merge with 32-bit one, since it was already aligned to deal with F00F > bug. Since bss is cleared before IDT setup, it can live there. This also > moves the other *_idt_table variables into common locations. > > This avoids the risk of the IDT ever being moved in the bss and having > the mapping be offset, resulting in calling incorrect handlers. In the > current upstream kernel this is not a manifested bug, but heavily patched > kernels (such as those using the PaX patch series) did encounter this bug. > > The tables other than idt_table technically do not need to be page > aligned, at least not at the current time, but using a common > declaration avoids mistakes. On 64 bits the table is exactly one page > long, anyway. > > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130716183441.ga14...@www.outflux.net > Reported-by: PaX Team <pagee...@gmail.com> > Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <h...@linux.intel.com>
Hi, Peter, Any reason for why following changelog get dropped? --- v5: - add comments to all IDTs about alignment reasoning, suggested by Linus v4: - rework using __page_aligned_bss, suggested by Yinghai LU - move all the other IDT variables as well, suggested by HPA v3: - merge 32-bit and 64-bit idt_table definition v2: - 32-bit was already aligned --- That at least would help us to check if you apply the right version. Yinghai -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
