[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 034/144] x86/asm/entry/32: Fix user_mode() misuses

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Tue Apr 21 15:30:19 UTC 2015


3.16.7-ckt10 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto at amacapital.net>

commit 394838c96013ba414a24ffe7a2a593a9154daadf upstream.

The one in do_debug() is probably harmless, but better safe than sorry.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto at amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp at alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen at linux.intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d67deaa9df5458363623001f252d1aee3215d014.1425948056.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
[ luis: backported to 3.16:
  - drop changes to do_bounds() ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/traps.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
index 07ab8e9733c5..871f43ae47ef 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ dotraplinkage void do_debug(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code)
 	 * then it's very likely the result of an icebp/int01 trap.
 	 * User wants a sigtrap for that.
 	 */
-	if (!dr6 && user_mode(regs))
+	if (!dr6 && user_mode_vm(regs))
 		user_icebp = 1;
 
 	/* Catch kmemcheck conditions first of all! */




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