Commit-ID:  b038c842b385f1470f991078e71b7c5b084a7341
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/b038c842b385f1470f991078e71b7c5b084a7341
Author:     Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 12:23:27 -0700
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 11:56:41 +0200

x86/segments/64: When load_gs_index fails, clear the base

On AMD CPUs, a failed load_gs_base currently may not clear the FS
base.  Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Link: 
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1a6c4d3a8a4e7be79ba448b42685e0321d50c14c.1461698311.git.l...@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
---
 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
index 1693c17..6344629 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
@@ -794,6 +794,12 @@ END(native_load_gs_index)
        /* running with kernelgs */
 bad_gs:
        SWAPGS                                  /* switch back to user gs */
+.macro ZAP_GS
+       /* This can't be a string because the preprocessor needs to see it. */
+       movl $__USER_DS, %eax
+       movl %eax, %gs
+.endm
+       ALTERNATIVE "", "ZAP_GS", X86_BUG_NULL_SEG
        xorl    %eax, %eax
        movl    %eax, %gs
        jmp     2b

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