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[tip:x86/asm] x86/entry/32: Restore FLAGS on SYSEXIT

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Commit-ID:  c2c9b52fab0d0cf993476ed4c34f24da5a1205ae
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/c2c9b52fab0d0cf993476ed4c34f24da5a1205ae
Author:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
AuthorDate: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 19:00:27 -0800
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 09:48:12 +0100

x86/entry/32: Restore FLAGS on SYSEXIT

We weren't restoring FLAGS at all on SYSEXIT.  Apparently no one cared.

With this patch applied, native kernels should always honor
task_pt_regs()->flags, which opens the door for some sys_iopl()
cleanups.  I'll do those as a separate series, though, since getting
it right will involve tweaking some paravirt ops.

( The short version is that, before this patch, sys_iopl(), invoked via
  SYSENTER, wasn't guaranteed to ever transfer the updated
  regs->flags, so sys_iopl() had to change the hardware flags register
  as well. )

Reported-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3f98b207472dc9784838eb5ca2b89dcc845ce269.1457578375.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
 arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
index 8daa812..7610906 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
@@ -343,6 +343,15 @@ sysenter_past_esp:
 	popl	%eax			/* pt_regs->ax */
 
 	/*
+	 * Restore all flags except IF. (We restore IF separately because
+	 * STI gives a one-instruction window in which we won't be interrupted,
+	 * whereas POPF does not.)
+	 */
+	addl	$PT_EFLAGS-PT_DS, %esp	/* point esp at pt_regs->flags */
+	btr	$X86_EFLAGS_IF_BIT, (%esp)
+	popfl
+
+	/*
 	 * Return back to the vDSO, which will pop ecx and edx.
 	 * Don't bother with DS and ES (they already contain __USER_DS).
 	 */

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