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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2014-05-22 10:28:56 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2014-05-22 10:28:56 +0200
commit65c2ce70046c779974af8b5dfc25a0df489089b5 (patch)
treeb16f152eb62b71cf5a1edc51da865b357c989922 /arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
parent842514849a616e9b61acad65771c7afe01e651f9 (diff)
parent4b660a7f5c8099d88d1a43d8ae138965112592c7 (diff)
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Merge tag 'v3.15-rc6' into sched/core, to pick up the latest fixes
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
index af1d14a..dcbbaa1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
#include <asm/mmu_context.h>
#include <asm/syscalls.h>
+int sysctl_ldt16 = 0;
+
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
static void flush_ldt(void *current_mm)
{
@@ -234,7 +236,7 @@ static int write_ldt(void __user *ptr, unsigned long bytecount, int oldmode)
* IRET leaking the high bits of the kernel stack address.
*/
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
- if (!ldt_info.seg_32bit) {
+ if (!ldt_info.seg_32bit && !sysctl_ldt16) {
error = -EINVAL;
goto out_unlock;
}
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