Commit f7154aa5 authored by Andy Lutomirski's avatar Andy Lutomirski Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/speculation/mds: Revert CPU buffer clear on double fault exit

commit 88640e1d upstream.

The double fault ESPFIX path doesn't return to user mode at all --
it returns back to the kernel by simulating a #GP fault.
prepare_exit_to_usermode() will run on the way out of
general_protection before running user code.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jon Masters <jcm@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
Fixes: 04dcbdb8 ("x86/speculation/mds: Clear CPU buffers on exit to user")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ac97612445c0a44ee10374f6ea79c222fe22a5c4.1557865329.git.luto@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 7227474b
......@@ -158,13 +158,6 @@ Mitigation points
mitigated on the return from do_nmi() to provide almost complete
coverage.
- Double fault (#DF):
A double fault is usually fatal, but the ESPFIX workaround, which can
be triggered from user space through modify_ldt(2) is a recoverable
double fault. #DF uses the paranoid exit path, so explicit mitigation
in the double fault handler is required.
- Machine Check Exception (#MC):
Another corner case is a #MC which hits between the CPU buffer clear
......
......@@ -62,7 +62,6 @@
#include <asm/alternative.h>
#include <asm/fpu/xstate.h>
#include <asm/trace/mpx.h>
#include <asm/nospec-branch.h>
#include <asm/mpx.h>
#include <asm/vm86.h>
......@@ -341,13 +340,6 @@ dotraplinkage void do_double_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code)
regs->ip = (unsigned long)general_protection;
regs->sp = (unsigned long)&normal_regs->orig_ax;
/*
* This situation can be triggered by userspace via
* modify_ldt(2) and the return does not take the regular
* user space exit, so a CPU buffer clear is required when
* MDS mitigation is enabled.
*/
mds_user_clear_cpu_buffers();
return;
}
#endif
......
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