On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 11:02:34AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> So how about doing the patch below?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ingo
>
> ===================================>
> From 6677d6f073cfda7f1036eb06d13faaad5c6742cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
> Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 09:10:08 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] x86/asm/entry: Remove user_mode_ignore_vm86()
>
> user_mode_ignore_vm86() can be used instead of user_mode(), in
> places where we have already done a v8086_mode() security
> check of ptregs.
>
> But doing this check in the wrong place would be a bug that could
> result in security problems, and also the naming still isn't very clear.
>
> Furthermore, it only affects 32-bit kernels, while most development
> happens on 64-bit kernels.
>
> If we replace them with user_mode() checks then the cost is only a
> very minor increase in various slowpaths:
>
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 10573391 703562 1753042 13029995 c6d26b vmlinux.o.before
> 10573423 703562 1753042 13030027 c6d28b vmlinux.o.after
>
> So lets get rid of this distinction once and for all.
>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de>
> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlas...@redhat.com>
> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace.h | 17 -----------------
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c | 2 +-
> arch/x86/kernel/traps.c | 6 +++---
> 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
I had some doubts about people using user_mode_ignore_vm86() in the
wrong way and thus introducing sec. bugs.
Since this is only on the slow path, simplifying the code makes sense to
me.
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de>
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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