Commit 3da4340b authored by Andy Lutomirski's avatar Andy Lutomirski Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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x86/tls: Validate TLS entries to protect espfix



commit 41bdc785 upstream.

Installing a 16-bit RW data segment into the GDT defeats espfix.
AFAICT this will not affect glibc, Wine, or dosemu at all.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Acked-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 486aa789
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