[3.16.y-ckt extended stable] Patch "x86_64, entry: Fix out of bounds read on sysenter" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    x86_64, entry: Fix out of bounds read on sysenter

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt1.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 12fe1495541b639e768378addf1fcbba0d464fda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto at amacapital.net>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 18:08:45 -0700
Subject: x86_64, entry: Fix out of bounds read on sysenter

commit 653bc77af60911ead1f423e588f54fc2547c4957 upstream.

Rusty noticed a Really Bad Bug (tm) in my NT fix.  The entry code
reads out of bounds, causing the NT fix to be unreliable.  But, and
this is much, much worse, if your stack is somehow just below the
top of the direct map (or a hole), you read out of bounds and crash.

Excerpt from the crash:

[    1.129513] RSP: 0018:ffff88001da4bf88  EFLAGS: 00010296

  2b:*    f7 84 24 90 00 00 00     testl  $0x4000,0x90(%rsp)

That read is deterministically above the top of the stack.  I
thought I even single-stepped through this code when I wrote it to
check the offset, but I clearly screwed it up.

Fixes: 8c7aa698baca ("x86_64, entry: Filter RFLAGS.NT on entry from userspace")
Reported-by: Rusty Russell <rusty at ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto at amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S b/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S
index 711de084ab57..92a2e9333620 100644
--- a/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S
+++ b/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ ENTRY(ia32_sysenter_target)
 	 * ourselves.  To save a few cycles, we can check whether
 	 * NT was set instead of doing an unconditional popfq.
 	 */
-	testl $X86_EFLAGS_NT,EFLAGS(%rsp)	/* saved EFLAGS match cpu */
+	testl $X86_EFLAGS_NT,EFLAGS-ARGOFFSET(%rsp)
 	jnz sysenter_fix_flags
 sysenter_flags_fixed:

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2.1.0