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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>2017-08-01 07:11:34 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-08-10 17:15:13 +0200
commit767d035d838f4fd6b5a5bbd7a3f6d293b7f65a49 (patch)
tree04a5a48615adfd05d7a7be426f8367aa3c67700a /mm/Kconfig.debug
parentaf79ded44b7c5eee46b433a9269fcf899372225b (diff)
x86/fsgsbase/64: Fully initialize FS and GS state in start_thread_common
execve used to leak FSBASE and GSBASE on AMD CPUs. Fix it. The security impact of this bug is small but not quite zero -- it could weaken ASLR when a privileged task execs a less privileged program, but only if program changed bitness across the exec, or the child binary was highly unusual or actively malicious. A child program that was compromised after the exec would not have access to the leaked base. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bpetkov@suse.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Chang Seok <chang.seok.bae@intel.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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