Quentin Casasnovas 06c8173eb9 x86/fpu/xsaves: Fix improper uses of __ex_table ...

Commit:

  f31a9f7c71 ("x86/xsaves: Use xsaves/xrstors to save and restore xsave area")

introduced alternative instructions for XSAVES/XRSTORS and commit:

  adb9d526e9 ("x86/xsaves: Add xsaves and xrstors support for booting time")

added support for the XSAVES/XRSTORS instructions at boot time.

Unfortunately both failed to properly protect them against faulting:

The 'xstate_fault' macro will use the closest label named '1'
backward and that ends up in the .altinstr_replacement section
rather than in .text. This means that the kernel will never find
in the __ex_table the .text address where this instruction might
fault, leading to serious problems if userspace manages to
trigger the fault.

Signed-off-by: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@oracle.com>
[ Improved the changelog, fixed some whitespace noise. ]
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Allan Xavier <mr.a.xavier@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: adb9d526e9 ("x86/xsaves: Add xsaves and xrstors support for booting time")
Fixes: f31a9f7c71 ("x86/xsaves: Use xsaves/xrstors to save and restore xsave area")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

2015-03-05 18:20:36 +01:00

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