3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Kees Cook <[email protected]> based on 4df05f361937ee86e5a8c9ead8aeb6a19ea9b7d7 upstream. Since the IDT is referenced from a fixmap, make sure it is page aligned. This avoids the risk of the IDT ever being moved in the bss and having the mapping be offset, resulting in calling incorrect handlers. In the current upstream kernel this is not a manifested bug, but heavily patched kernels (such as those using the PaX patch series) did encounter this bug. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Reported-by: PaX Team <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]> Cc: Yinghai Lu <[email protected]> Cc: Seiji Aguchi <[email protected]> Cc: Fenghua Yu <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S @@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ ENTRY(phys_base) #include "../../x86/xen/xen-head.S" .section .bss, "aw", @nobits - .align L1_CACHE_BYTES + .align PAGE_SIZE ENTRY(idt_table) .skip IDT_ENTRIES * 16 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
