From 09d9056ce65466da2a4634c62fcfecfa70fc9605 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 23:23:27 +0100 Subject: i386: save/restore eflags in context switch (CVE-2006-5173) (And reset it on new thread creation) It turns out that eflags is important to save and restore not just because of iopl, but due to the magic bits like the NT bit, which we don't want leaking between different threads. Backported to 2.6.16 by Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> [Backport consisted of removing the CFI annotations.] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk --- include/asm-i386/system.h | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/asm-i386/system.h b/include/asm-i386/system.h index 399145a247f2..ec36513239bd 100644 --- a/include/asm-i386/system.h +++ b/include/asm-i386/system.h @@ -12,9 +12,14 @@ struct task_struct; /* one of the stranger aspects of C forward declarations.. */ extern struct task_struct * FASTCALL(__switch_to(struct task_struct *prev, struct task_struct *next)); +/* + * Saving eflags is important. It switches not only IOPL between tasks, + * it also protects other tasks from NT leaking through sysenter etc. + */ #define switch_to(prev,next,last) do { \ unsigned long esi,edi; \ - asm volatile("pushl %%ebp\n\t" \ + asm volatile("pushfl\n\t" /* Save flags */ \ + "pushl %%ebp\n\t" \ "movl %%esp,%0\n\t" /* save ESP */ \ "movl %5,%%esp\n\t" /* restore ESP */ \ "movl $1f,%1\n\t" /* save EIP */ \ @@ -22,6 +27,7 @@ extern struct task_struct * FASTCALL(__switch_to(struct task_struct *prev, struc "jmp __switch_to\n" \ "1:\t" \ "popl %%ebp\n\t" \ + "popfl" \ :"=m" (prev->thread.esp),"=m" (prev->thread.eip), \ "=a" (last),"=S" (esi),"=D" (edi) \ :"m" (next->thread.esp),"m" (next->thread.eip), \ -- cgit v1.2.3