[CVE-2014-9090] x86_64, traps: Stop using IST for #SS

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Fri Dec 5 13:47:56 UTC 2014


Following this email I am sending for review the CVE-2014-9090 fix
backports for both Lucid (2.6.32) and Precise (3.2.0).

I'm also CC'ing Debian mailing-lists, Moritz, Ben and Willy as these
backports could be of interest both to Debian and to the 2.6.32 and
3.2 stable kernels.

Andy Lutomirski (1):
  x86_64, traps: Stop using IST for #SS

 arch/x86/include/asm/page_32_types.h |  1 -
 arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h | 11 +++++------
 arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c       |  1 -
 arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S           |  2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/traps.c              | 13 +------------
 5 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)





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