linux/arch/x86/include
Andy Lutomirski 37868fe113 x86/ldt: Make modify_ldt synchronous
modify_ldt() has questionable locking and does not synchronize
threads.  Improve it: redesign the locking and synchronize all
threads' LDTs using an IPI on all modifications.

This will dramatically slow down modify_ldt in multithreaded
programs, but there shouldn't be any multithreaded programs that
care about modify_ldt's performance in the first place.

This fixes some fallout from the CVE-2015-5157 fixes.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: security@kernel.org <security@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4c6978476782160600471bd865b318db34c7b628.1438291540.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-07-31 10:23:23 +02:00
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asm x86/ldt: Make modify_ldt synchronous 2015-07-31 10:23:23 +02:00
uapi/asm KVM: x86: rename quirk constants to KVM_X86_QUIRK_* 2015-07-23 08:24:42 +02:00