From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 01:33:32 +0000 (-0700) Subject: x86/asm/entry: Make user_mode() work correctly if regs came from VM86 mode X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~176^2~2028^2~69 X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=efa704510342b81ae58d7b8a0c7f676a4289b603;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git x86/asm/entry: Make user_mode() work correctly if regs came from VM86 mode user_mode() is now identical to user_mode_vm(). Subsequent patches will change all callers of user_mode_vm() to user_mode() and then delete user_mode_vm(). Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brad Spengler Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0dd03eacb5f0a2b5ba0240de25347a31b493c289.1426728647.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace.h index 4a040f0078f2..70c439f9071b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace.h @@ -96,11 +96,13 @@ static inline unsigned long regs_return_value(struct pt_regs *regs) } /* - * user_mode_vm(regs) determines whether a register set came from user mode. - * This is true if V8086 mode was enabled OR if the register set was from - * protected mode with RPL-3 CS value. This tricky test checks that with - * one comparison. Many places in the kernel can bypass this full check - * if they have already ruled out V8086 mode, so user_mode(regs) can be used. + * user_mode(regs) determines whether a register set came from user + * mode. On x86_32, this is true if V8086 mode was enabled OR if the + * register set was from protected mode with RPL-3 CS value. This + * tricky test checks that with one comparison. + * + * On x86_64, vm86 mode is mercifully nonexistent, and we don't need + * the extra check. */ static inline int user_mode(struct pt_regs *regs) { @@ -113,12 +115,7 @@ static inline int user_mode(struct pt_regs *regs) static inline int user_mode_vm(struct pt_regs *regs) { -#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 - return ((regs->cs & SEGMENT_RPL_MASK) | (regs->flags & X86_VM_MASK)) >= - USER_RPL; -#else return user_mode(regs); -#endif } /*