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<title>MIPS: Fix kernel lockup or crash after CPU offline/online</title>
<updated>2015-03-06T00:39:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hemmo Nieminen</name>
<email>hemmo.nieminen@iki.fi</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-15T21:01:59+00:00</published>
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commit c7754e75100ed5e3068ac5085747f2bfc386c8d6 upstream.

As printk() invocation can cause e.g. a TLB miss, printk() cannot be
called before the exception handlers have been properly initialized.
This can happen e.g. when netconsole has been loaded as a kernel module
and the TLB table has been cleared when a CPU was offline.

Call cpu_report() in start_secondary() only after the exception handlers
have been initialized to fix this.

Without the patch the kernel will randomly either lockup or crash
after a CPU is onlined and the console driver is a module.

Signed-off-by: Hemmo Nieminen &lt;hemmo.nieminen@iki.fi&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen &lt;aaro.koskinen@iki.fi&gt;
Cc: David Daney &lt;david.daney@cavium.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/8953/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit c7754e75100ed5e3068ac5085747f2bfc386c8d6 upstream.

As printk() invocation can cause e.g. a TLB miss, printk() cannot be
called before the exception handlers have been properly initialized.
This can happen e.g. when netconsole has been loaded as a kernel module
and the TLB table has been cleared when a CPU was offline.

Call cpu_report() in start_secondary() only after the exception handlers
have been initialized to fix this.

Without the patch the kernel will randomly either lockup or crash
after a CPU is onlined and the console driver is a module.

Signed-off-by: Hemmo Nieminen &lt;hemmo.nieminen@iki.fi&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen &lt;aaro.koskinen@iki.fi&gt;
Cc: David Daney &lt;david.daney@cavium.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/8953/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>MIPS: IRQ: Fix disable_irq on CPU IRQs</title>
<updated>2015-03-06T00:39:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Felix Fietkau</name>
<email>nbd@openwrt.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-15T18:05:28+00:00</published>
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commit a3e6c1eff54878506b2dddcc202df9cc8180facb upstream.

If the irq_chip does not define .irq_disable, any call to disable_irq
will defer disabling the IRQ until it fires while marked as disabled.
This assumes that the handler function checks for this condition, which
handle_percpu_irq does not. In this case, calling disable_irq leads to
an IRQ storm, if the interrupt fires while disabled.

This optimization is only useful when disabling the IRQ is slow, which
is not true for the MIPS CPU IRQ.

Disable this optimization by implementing .irq_disable and .irq_enable

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau &lt;nbd@openwrt.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/8949/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit a3e6c1eff54878506b2dddcc202df9cc8180facb upstream.

If the irq_chip does not define .irq_disable, any call to disable_irq
will defer disabling the IRQ until it fires while marked as disabled.
This assumes that the handler function checks for this condition, which
handle_percpu_irq does not. In this case, calling disable_irq leads to
an IRQ storm, if the interrupt fires while disabled.

This optimization is only useful when disabling the IRQ is slow, which
is not true for the MIPS CPU IRQ.

Disable this optimization by implementing .irq_disable and .irq_enable

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau &lt;nbd@openwrt.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/8949/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86: mm/fault: Fix semaphore imbalance</title>
<updated>2015-03-06T00:39:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Hutchings</name>
<email>ben@decadent.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-25T00:02:28+00:00</published>
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When backporting commit 33692f27597f ('vm: add VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV
handling support') I didn't notice that it depended on a recent change
to the locking context of mm_fault_error() (commit 7fb08eca4527,
'x86: mm: move mmap_sem unlock from mm_fault_error() to caller').
That isn't easily applicable to 3.2, so instead make sure we drop
mm-&gt;mmap_sem on the new branch of mm_fault_error().

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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When backporting commit 33692f27597f ('vm: add VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV
handling support') I didn't notice that it depended on a recent change
to the locking context of mm_fault_error() (commit 7fb08eca4527,
'x86: mm: move mmap_sem unlock from mm_fault_error() to caller').
That isn't easily applicable to 3.2, so instead make sure we drop
mm-&gt;mmap_sem on the new branch of mm_fault_error().

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: x86: SYSENTER emulation is broken</title>
<updated>2015-02-20T00:49:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nadav Amit</name>
<email>namit@cs.technion.ac.il</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-01T21:11:11+00:00</published>
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commit f3747379accba8e95d70cec0eae0582c8c182050 upstream.

SYSENTER emulation is broken in several ways:
1. It misses the case of 16-bit code segments completely (CVE-2015-0239).
2. MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_CS is checked in 64-bit mode incorrectly (bits 0 and 1 can
   still be set without causing #GP).
3. MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_EIP and MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_ESP are not masked in
   legacy-mode.
4. There is some unneeded code.

Fix it.

Cc: stable@vger.linux.org
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit &lt;namit@cs.technion.ac.il&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit f3747379accba8e95d70cec0eae0582c8c182050 upstream.

SYSENTER emulation is broken in several ways:
1. It misses the case of 16-bit code segments completely (CVE-2015-0239).
2. MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_CS is checked in 64-bit mode incorrectly (bits 0 and 1 can
   still be set without causing #GP).
3. MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_EIP and MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_ESP are not masked in
   legacy-mode.
4. There is some unneeded code.

Fix it.

Cc: stable@vger.linux.org
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit &lt;namit@cs.technion.ac.il&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: x86 emulator: reject SYSENTER in compatibility mode on AMD guests</title>
<updated>2015-02-20T00:49:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Avi Kivity</name>
<email>avi@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-01T10:23:21+00:00</published>
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commit 1a18a69b762374c423305772500f36eb8984ca52 upstream.

If the guest thinks it's an AMD, it will not have prepared the SYSENTER MSRs,
and if the guest executes SYSENTER in compatibility mode, it will fails.

Detect this condition and #UD instead, like the spec says.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 1a18a69b762374c423305772500f36eb8984ca52 upstream.

If the guest thinks it's an AMD, it will not have prepared the SYSENTER MSRs,
and if the guest executes SYSENTER in compatibility mode, it will fails.

Detect this condition and #UD instead, like the spec says.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, cpu, amd: Add workaround for family 16h, erratum 793</title>
<updated>2015-02-20T00:49:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-14T23:07:11+00:00</published>
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commit 3b56496865f9f7d9bcb2f93b44c63f274f08e3b6 upstream.

This adds the workaround for erratum 793 as a precaution in case not
every BIOS implements it.  This addresses CVE-2013-6885.

Erratum text:

[Revision Guide for AMD Family 16h Models 00h-0Fh Processors,
document 51810 Rev. 3.04 November 2013]

793 Specific Combination of Writes to Write Combined Memory Types and
Locked Instructions May Cause Core Hang

Description

Under a highly specific and detailed set of internal timing
conditions, a locked instruction may trigger a timing sequence whereby
the write to a write combined memory type is not flushed, causing the
locked instruction to stall indefinitely.

Potential Effect on System

Processor core hang.

Suggested Workaround

BIOS should set MSR
C001_1020[15] = 1b.

Fix Planned

No fix planned

[ hpa: updated description, fixed typo in MSR name ]

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140114230711.GS29865@pd.tnic
Tested-by: Aravind Gopalakrishnan &lt;aravind.gopalakrishnan@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - Adjust filename
 - Venkatesh Srinivas pointed out we should use {rd,wr}msrl_safe() to
   avoid crashing on KVM.  This was fixed upstream by commit 8f86a7373a1c
   ("x86, AMD: Convert to the new bit access MSR accessors") but that's too
   much trouble to backport.  Here we must use {rd,wr}msrl_amd_safe().]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Moritz Muehlenhoff &lt;jmm@debian.org&gt;
Cc: Venkatesh Srinivas &lt;venkateshs@google.com&gt;
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commit 3b56496865f9f7d9bcb2f93b44c63f274f08e3b6 upstream.

This adds the workaround for erratum 793 as a precaution in case not
every BIOS implements it.  This addresses CVE-2013-6885.

Erratum text:

[Revision Guide for AMD Family 16h Models 00h-0Fh Processors,
document 51810 Rev. 3.04 November 2013]

793 Specific Combination of Writes to Write Combined Memory Types and
Locked Instructions May Cause Core Hang

Description

Under a highly specific and detailed set of internal timing
conditions, a locked instruction may trigger a timing sequence whereby
the write to a write combined memory type is not flushed, causing the
locked instruction to stall indefinitely.

Potential Effect on System

Processor core hang.

Suggested Workaround

BIOS should set MSR
C001_1020[15] = 1b.

Fix Planned

No fix planned

[ hpa: updated description, fixed typo in MSR name ]

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140114230711.GS29865@pd.tnic
Tested-by: Aravind Gopalakrishnan &lt;aravind.gopalakrishnan@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - Adjust filename
 - Venkatesh Srinivas pointed out we should use {rd,wr}msrl_safe() to
   avoid crashing on KVM.  This was fixed upstream by commit 8f86a7373a1c
   ("x86, AMD: Convert to the new bit access MSR accessors") but that's too
   much trouble to backport.  Here we must use {rd,wr}msrl_amd_safe().]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Moritz Muehlenhoff &lt;jmm@debian.org&gt;
Cc: Venkatesh Srinivas &lt;venkateshs@google.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Revert "x86, 64bit, mm: Mark data/bss/brk to nx"</title>
<updated>2015-02-20T00:49:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Hutchings</name>
<email>ben@decadent.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-11T20:32:41+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit e105c8187b7101e8a8a54ac0218c9d9c9463c636 which
was commit 72212675d1c96f5db8ec6fb35701879911193158 upstream.

This caused suspend/resume to stop working on at least some systems -
specifically, the system would reboot when woken.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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This reverts commit e105c8187b7101e8a8a54ac0218c9d9c9463c636 which
was commit 72212675d1c96f5db8ec6fb35701879911193158 upstream.

This caused suspend/resume to stop working on at least some systems -
specifically, the system would reboot when woken.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revert "x86, mm: Set NX across entire PMD at boot"</title>
<updated>2015-02-20T00:49:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Hutchings</name>
<email>ben@decadent.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-11T00:30:55+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit a5c187d92d2ce30315f333b9dff33af832e8b443 which
was commit 45e2a9d4701d8c624d4a4bcdd1084eae31e92f58 upstream.

The previous commit caused suspend/resume to stop working on at least
some systems - specifically, the system would reboot when woken.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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This reverts commit a5c187d92d2ce30315f333b9dff33af832e8b443 which
was commit 45e2a9d4701d8c624d4a4bcdd1084eae31e92f58 upstream.

The previous commit caused suspend/resume to stop working on at least
some systems - specifically, the system would reboot when woken.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>vm: add VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV handling support</title>
<updated>2015-02-20T00:49:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-29T18:51:32+00:00</published>
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commit 33692f27597fcab536d7cbbcc8f52905133e4aa7 upstream.

The core VM already knows about VM_FAULT_SIGBUS, but cannot return a
"you should SIGSEGV" error, because the SIGSEGV case was generally
handled by the caller - usually the architecture fault handler.

That results in lots of duplication - all the architecture fault
handlers end up doing very similar "look up vma, check permissions, do
retries etc" - but it generally works.  However, there are cases where
the VM actually wants to SIGSEGV, and applications _expect_ SIGSEGV.

In particular, when accessing the stack guard page, libsigsegv expects a
SIGSEGV.  And it usually got one, because the stack growth is handled by
that duplicated architecture fault handler.

However, when the generic VM layer started propagating the error return
from the stack expansion in commit fee7e49d4514 ("mm: propagate error
from stack expansion even for guard page"), that now exposed the
existing VM_FAULT_SIGBUS result to user space.  And user space really
expected SIGSEGV, not SIGBUS.

To fix that case, we need to add a VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV, and teach all those
duplicate architecture fault handlers about it.  They all already have
the code to handle SIGSEGV, so it's about just tying that new return
value to the existing code, but it's all a bit annoying.

This is the mindless minimal patch to do this.  A more extensive patch
would be to try to gather up the mostly shared fault handling logic into
one generic helper routine, and long-term we really should do that
cleanup.

Just from this patch, you can generally see that most architectures just
copied (directly or indirectly) the old x86 way of doing things, but in
the meantime that original x86 model has been improved to hold the VM
semaphore for shorter times etc and to handle VM_FAULT_RETRY and other
"newer" things, so it would be a good idea to bring all those
improvements to the generic case and teach other architectures about
them too.

Reported-and-tested-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Jan Engelhardt &lt;jengelh@inai.de&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt; # "s390 still compiles and boots"
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - Adjust filenames, context
 - Drop arc, metag, nios2 and lustre changes
 - For sh, patch both 32-bit and 64-bit implementations to use goto bad_area
 - For s390, pass int_code and trans_exc_code as arguments to do_no_context()
   and do_sigsegv()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 33692f27597fcab536d7cbbcc8f52905133e4aa7 upstream.

The core VM already knows about VM_FAULT_SIGBUS, but cannot return a
"you should SIGSEGV" error, because the SIGSEGV case was generally
handled by the caller - usually the architecture fault handler.

That results in lots of duplication - all the architecture fault
handlers end up doing very similar "look up vma, check permissions, do
retries etc" - but it generally works.  However, there are cases where
the VM actually wants to SIGSEGV, and applications _expect_ SIGSEGV.

In particular, when accessing the stack guard page, libsigsegv expects a
SIGSEGV.  And it usually got one, because the stack growth is handled by
that duplicated architecture fault handler.

However, when the generic VM layer started propagating the error return
from the stack expansion in commit fee7e49d4514 ("mm: propagate error
from stack expansion even for guard page"), that now exposed the
existing VM_FAULT_SIGBUS result to user space.  And user space really
expected SIGSEGV, not SIGBUS.

To fix that case, we need to add a VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV, and teach all those
duplicate architecture fault handlers about it.  They all already have
the code to handle SIGSEGV, so it's about just tying that new return
value to the existing code, but it's all a bit annoying.

This is the mindless minimal patch to do this.  A more extensive patch
would be to try to gather up the mostly shared fault handling logic into
one generic helper routine, and long-term we really should do that
cleanup.

Just from this patch, you can generally see that most architectures just
copied (directly or indirectly) the old x86 way of doing things, but in
the meantime that original x86 model has been improved to hold the VM
semaphore for shorter times etc and to handle VM_FAULT_RETRY and other
"newer" things, so it would be a good idea to bring all those
improvements to the generic case and teach other architectures about
them too.

Reported-and-tested-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Jan Engelhardt &lt;jengelh@inai.de&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt; # "s390 still compiles and boots"
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - Adjust filenames, context
 - Drop arc, metag, nios2 and lustre changes
 - For sh, patch both 32-bit and 64-bit implementations to use goto bad_area
 - For s390, pass int_code and trans_exc_code as arguments to do_no_context()
   and do_sigsegv()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<title>x86, tls: Interpret an all-zero struct user_desc as "no segment"</title>
<updated>2015-02-20T00:49:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@amacapital.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-22T19:27:59+00:00</published>
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commit 3669ef9fa7d35f573ec9c0e0341b29251c2734a7 upstream.

The Witcher 2 did something like this to allocate a TLS segment index:

        struct user_desc u_info;
        bzero(&amp;u_info, sizeof(u_info));
        u_info.entry_number = (uint32_t)-1;

        syscall(SYS_set_thread_area, &amp;u_info);

Strictly speaking, this code was never correct.  It should have set
read_exec_only and seg_not_present to 1 to indicate that it wanted
to find a free slot without putting anything there, or it should
have put something sensible in the TLS slot if it wanted to allocate
a TLS entry for real.  The actual effect of this code was to
allocate a bogus segment that could be used to exploit espfix.

The set_thread_area hardening patches changed the behavior, causing
set_thread_area to return -EINVAL and crashing the game.

This changes set_thread_area to interpret this as a request to find
a free slot and to leave it empty, which isn't *quite* what the game
expects but should be close enough to keep it working.  In
particular, using the code above to allocate two segments will
allocate the same segment both times.

According to FrostbittenKing on Github, this fixes The Witcher 2.

If this somehow still causes problems, we could instead allocate
a limit==0 32-bit data segment, but that seems rather ugly to me.

Fixes: 41bdc78544b8 x86/tls: Validate TLS entries to protect espfix
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0cb251abe1ff0958b8e468a9a9a905b80ae3a746.1421954363.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 3669ef9fa7d35f573ec9c0e0341b29251c2734a7 upstream.

The Witcher 2 did something like this to allocate a TLS segment index:

        struct user_desc u_info;
        bzero(&amp;u_info, sizeof(u_info));
        u_info.entry_number = (uint32_t)-1;

        syscall(SYS_set_thread_area, &amp;u_info);

Strictly speaking, this code was never correct.  It should have set
read_exec_only and seg_not_present to 1 to indicate that it wanted
to find a free slot without putting anything there, or it should
have put something sensible in the TLS slot if it wanted to allocate
a TLS entry for real.  The actual effect of this code was to
allocate a bogus segment that could be used to exploit espfix.

The set_thread_area hardening patches changed the behavior, causing
set_thread_area to return -EINVAL and crashing the game.

This changes set_thread_area to interpret this as a request to find
a free slot and to leave it empty, which isn't *quite* what the game
expects but should be close enough to keep it working.  In
particular, using the code above to allocate two segments will
allocate the same segment both times.

According to FrostbittenKing on Github, this fixes The Witcher 2.

If this somehow still causes problems, we could instead allocate
a limit==0 32-bit data segment, but that seems rather ugly to me.

Fixes: 41bdc78544b8 x86/tls: Validate TLS entries to protect espfix
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0cb251abe1ff0958b8e468a9a9a905b80ae3a746.1421954363.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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