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authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2010-04-23 16:17:40 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-05-12 14:57:06 -0700
commite620234b3ec62cedcdc3a8c53ed50facd4392cb3 (patch)
tree3fe16fa17d560d481b5857dced8628fa15b90f26 /arch/x86
parent6dc36b37f62f666c802b184f01106fd222d36bd2 (diff)
x86-64: Clear a 64-bit FS/GS base on fork if selector is nonzero
commit 7ce5a2b9bb2e92902230e3121d8c3047fab9cb47 upstream. When we do a thread switch, we clear the outgoing FS/GS base if the corresponding selector is nonzero. This is taken by __switch_to() as an entry invariant; it does not verify that it is true on entry. However, copy_thread() doesn't enforce this constraint, which can result in inconsistent results after fork(). Make copy_thread() match the behavior of __switch_to(). Reported-and-tested-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@inria.fr> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> LKML-Reference: <4BD1E061.8030605@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c5
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
index 6eabe900412..868fdb407bb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
@@ -295,11 +295,10 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long sp,
set_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_FORK);
- p->thread.fs = me->thread.fs;
- p->thread.gs = me->thread.gs;
-
savesegment(gs, p->thread.gsindex);
+ p->thread.gs = p->thread.gsindex ? 0 : me->thread.gs;
savesegment(fs, p->thread.fsindex);
+ p->thread.fs = p->thread.fsindex ? 0 : me->thread.fs;
savesegment(es, p->thread.es);
savesegment(ds, p->thread.ds);