From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] x86: set_personality_ia32() abuses TS_COMPAT
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:02:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100216140242.GC16448@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100216140126.GA16448@redhat.com>
set_personality_ia32() sets TS_COMPAT for unknown reason.
This doesn't hurt but this is unneeded and confusing, TS_COMPAT
means we are inside the 32bit syscall.
In fact I'd say this is not right, but fortunetely do_execve() can
never return something which could confuse syscall_get_error().
And apart from do_signal() we never check TS_COMPAT during return
to user-mode.
Another reason why I think this is not right. I am not sure I fully
understand this asm, but it seems to me that system_call_fastpath
can "leak" TS_COMPAT. While probably this doesn't really matter, we
can return to user-mode with this bit set.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
---
arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
--- exec/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c~2_dont_set_compat 2010-02-16 13:26:34.000000000 +0100
+++ exec/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c 2010-02-16 13:46:25.000000000 +0100
@@ -528,9 +528,6 @@ void set_personality_ia32(void)
/* Make sure to be in 32bit mode */
set_thread_flag(TIF_IA32);
current->personality |= force_personality32;
-
- /* Prepare the first "return" to user space */
- current_thread_info()->status |= TS_COMPAT;
}
unsigned long get_wchan(struct task_struct *p)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-16 14:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-15 16:17 x86: get rid of the insane TIF_ABI_PENDING bit Oleg Nesterov
2010-02-15 16:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-02-15 16:50 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-02-15 18:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-02-15 18:52 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-02-15 19:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-02-15 19:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-02-15 19:41 ` Roland McGrath
2010-02-15 20:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-02-15 21:14 ` Roland McGrath
2010-02-15 20:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-02-15 21:05 ` Roland McGrath
2010-02-16 10:19 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-02-16 10:23 ` Andi Kleen
2010-02-16 14:01 ` [PATCH 0/3] Was: " Oleg Nesterov
2010-02-16 14:02 ` [PATCH 1/3] x86: set_personality_ia32() misses force_personality32 Oleg Nesterov
2010-02-16 23:27 ` [tip:x86/urgent] " tip-bot for Oleg Nesterov
2010-02-16 14:02 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2010-02-16 15:40 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86: set_personality_ia32() abuses TS_COMPAT Linus Torvalds
2010-02-16 17:16 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-02-16 17:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-02-16 17:44 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-02-16 17:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-02-17 15:40 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-02-16 18:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-02-16 14:03 ` [PATCH 3/3] x86: ELF_PLAT_INIT() shouldn't worry about TIF_IA32 Oleg Nesterov
2010-02-16 14:24 ` Oleg Nesterov
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