x86_64: Ignore compat mode SYSCALL when IA32_EMULATION is not defined
Previously a program could switch to a compat mode segment and then
execute SYSCALL and it would jump to an uninitialized MSR and crash
the kernel.
Instead supply a dummy target for this case.
Pointed out by Jan Beulich
Cc: jbeulich@novell.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/entry.S b/arch/x86_64/kernel/entry.S
index fa984b5..a67f87b 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/entry.S
@@ -1163,3 +1163,10 @@
ret
CFI_ENDPROC
ENDPROC(call_softirq)
+
+KPROBE_ENTRY(ignore_sysret)
+ CFI_STARTPROC
+ mov $-ENOSYS,%eax
+ sysret
+ CFI_ENDPROC
+ENDPROC(ignore_sysret)
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup64.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup64.c
index 64379a8..1200aaa 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup64.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup64.c
@@ -150,6 +150,8 @@
char boot_exception_stacks[(N_EXCEPTION_STACKS - 1) * EXCEPTION_STKSZ + DEBUG_STKSZ]
__attribute__((section(".bss.page_aligned")));
+extern asmlinkage void ignore_sysret(void);
+
/* May not be marked __init: used by software suspend */
void syscall_init(void)
{
@@ -160,6 +162,7 @@
*/
wrmsrl(MSR_STAR, ((u64)__USER32_CS)<<48 | ((u64)__KERNEL_CS)<<32);
wrmsrl(MSR_LSTAR, system_call);
+ wrmsrl(MSR_CSTAR, ignore_sysret);
#ifdef CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION
syscall32_cpu_init ();