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[PATCH urgent] x86/asm/64: Clear AC on NMI entries

From Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH urgent] x86/asm/64: Clear AC on NMI entries
Date 2017-08-08 04:50 +0200
Message-ID <uc2KK-1oR-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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This closes a hole in our SMAP implementation.

This patch comes from grsecurity.  Good catch!

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
---
 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
index d271fb79248f..6d078b89a5e8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
@@ -1211,6 +1211,8 @@ ENTRY(nmi)
 	 * other IST entries.
 	 */
 
+	ASM_CLAC
+
 	/* Use %rdx as our temp variable throughout */
 	pushq	%rdx
 
-- 
2.13.3

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[PATCH urgent] x86/asm/64: Clear AC on NMI entries Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2017-08-08 04:50 +0200
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