From: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
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"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa@csail.mit.edu>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 037/107] x86/mm: Factor out LDT init from context init
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 00:44:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1535154250.2902.63.camel@codethink.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180723122414.735940678@linuxfoundation.org>
On Mon, 2018-07-23 at 14:41 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 4.4-stable review patch.A A If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>
> ------------------
>
> From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
>
> commit 39a0526fb3f7d93433d146304278477eb463f8af upstream
[...]
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h
[...]
> +static inline int init_new_context(struct task_struct *tsk,
> + A A A struct mm_struct *mm)
> +{
> + init_new_context_ldt(tsk, mm);
> + return 0;
> +}
[...]
This hides errors from init_new_context_ldt(), which is very bad.
Fixed upstream by:
commit ccd5b3235180eef3cfec337df1c8554ab151b5cc
Author: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Date: Thu Aug 24 10:50:29 2017 -0700
x86/mm: Fix use-after-free of ldt_struct
Ben.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-24 23:44 UTC|newest]
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2018-07-23 12:41 ` [PATCH 4.4 037/107] x86/mm: Factor out LDT init from context init Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-08-24 23:44 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2018-08-26 6:06 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-07-23 12:41 ` [PATCH 4.4 038/107] x86/mm: Give each mm TLB flush generation a unique ID Greg Kroah-Hartman
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