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[PATCH 4.9 19/27] x86/asm/64: Clear AC on NMI entries

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  [PATCH 4.9 19/27] x86/asm/64: Clear AC on NMI entries Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-08-22 21:30 +0200

#1717760 — [PATCH 4.9 19/27] x86/asm/64: Clear AC on NMI entries

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

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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>

commit e93c17301ac55321fc18e0f8316e924e58a83c8c upstream.

This closes a hole in our SMAP implementation.

This patch comes from grsecurity. Good catch!

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/314cc9f294e8f14ed85485727556ad4f15bb1659.1502159503.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
@@ -1215,6 +1215,8 @@ ENTRY(nmi)
 	 * other IST entries.
 	 */
 
+	ASM_CLAC
+
 	/* Use %rdx as our temp variable throughout */
 	pushq	%rdx
 

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