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| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c index ebc987398923..af1d14a9ebda 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c @@ -229,6 +229,17 @@ static int write_ldt(void __user *ptr, unsigned long bytecount, int oldmode) } } + /* + * On x86-64 we do not support 16-bit segments due to + * IRET leaking the high bits of the kernel stack address. + */ +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 + if (!ldt_info.seg_32bit) { + error = -EINVAL; + goto out_unlock; + } +#endif + fill_ldt(&ldt, &ldt_info); if (oldmode) ldt.avl = 0; |
