From c482feefe1aeb150156248ba0fd3e029bc886605 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 15:07:29 +0100 Subject: x86/entry/64: Make cpu_entry_area.tss read-only The TSS is a fairly juicy target for exploits, and, now that the TSS is in the cpu_entry_area, it's no longer protected by kASLR. Make it read-only on x86_64. On x86_32, it can't be RO because it's written by the CPU during task switches, and we use a task gate for double faults. I'd also be nervous about errata if we tried to make it RO even on configurations without double fault handling. [ tglx: AMD confirmed that there is no problem on 64-bit with TSS RO. So it's probably safe to assume that it's a non issue, though Intel might have been creative in that area. Still waiting for confirmation. ] Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov Cc: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: David Laight Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: Eduardo Valentin Cc: Greg KH Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Juergen Gross Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Will Deacon Cc: aliguori@amazon.com Cc: daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at Cc: hughd@google.com Cc: keescook@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171204150606.733700132@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/lib/delay.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/lib') diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/delay.c b/arch/x86/lib/delay.c index 553f8fd23cc4..4846eff7e4c8 100644 --- a/arch/x86/lib/delay.c +++ b/arch/x86/lib/delay.c @@ -107,10 +107,10 @@ static void delay_mwaitx(unsigned long __loops) delay = min_t(u64, MWAITX_MAX_LOOPS, loops); /* - * Use cpu_tss as a cacheline-aligned, seldomly + * Use cpu_tss_rw as a cacheline-aligned, seldomly * accessed per-cpu variable as the monitor target. */ - __monitorx(raw_cpu_ptr(&cpu_tss), 0, 0); + __monitorx(raw_cpu_ptr(&cpu_tss_rw), 0, 0); /* * AMD, like Intel, supports the EAX hint and EAX=0xf -- cgit v1.2.1