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x86/asm/entry: Make user_mode() work correctly if regs came from VM86 mode

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user_mode() is now identical to user_mode_vm().  Subsequent patches
will change all callers of user_mode_vm() to user_mode() and then
delete user_mode_vm().

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0dd03eacb5f0a2b5ba0240de25347a31b493c289.1426728647.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Andy Lutomirski 2015-03-18 18:33:32 -07:00 • committed by Ingo Molnar
commit efa7045103
1 changed files with 7 additions and 10 deletions
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arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace.h
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@ -96,11 +96,13 @@ static inline unsigned long regs_return_value(struct pt_regs *regs)
}
/*
* user_mode_vm(regs) determines whether a register set came from user mode.
* This is true if V8086 mode was enabled OR if the register set was from
* protected mode with RPL-3 CS value. This tricky test checks that with
* one comparison. Many places in the kernel can bypass this full check
* if they have already ruled out V8086 mode, so user_mode(regs) can be used.
* user_mode(regs) determines whether a register set came from user
* mode. On x86_32, this is true if V8086 mode was enabled OR if the
* register set was from protected mode with RPL-3 CS value. This
* tricky test checks that with one comparison.
*
* On x86_64, vm86 mode is mercifully nonexistent, and we don't need
* the extra check.
*/
static inline int user_mode(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
@ -113,12 +115,7 @@ static inline int user_mode(struct pt_regs *regs)
static inline int user_mode_vm(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
return ((regs->cs & SEGMENT_RPL_MASK) | (regs->flags & X86_VM_MASK)) >=
USER_RPL;
#else
return user_mode(regs);
#endif
}
/*