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Xin Li (Intel) 48e705652d x86/ia32: Leave NULL selector values 0~3 unchanged 
[ Upstream commit ad546940b5 ]

The first GDT descriptor is reserved as 'NULL descriptor'.  As bits 0
and 1 of a segment selector, i.e., the RPL bits, are NOT used to index
GDT, selector values 0~3 all point to the NULL descriptor, thus values
0, 1, 2 and 3 are all valid NULL selector values.

When a NULL selector value is to be loaded into a segment register,
reload_segments() sets its RPL bits.  Later IRET zeros ES, FS, GS, and
DS segment registers if any of them is found to have any nonzero NULL
selector value.  The two operations offset each other to actually effect
a nop.

Besides, zeroing of RPL in NULL selector values is an information leak
in pre-FRED systems as userspace can spot any interrupt/exception by
loading a nonzero NULL selector, and waiting for it to become zero.
But there is nothing software can do to prevent it before FRED.

ERETU, the only legit instruction to return to userspace from kernel
under FRED, by design does NOT zero any segment register to avoid this
problem behavior.

As such, leave NULL selector values 0~3 unchanged and close the leak.

Do the same on 32-bit kernel as well.

Signed-off-by: Xin Li (Intel) <xin@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241126184529.1607334-1-xin@zytor.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2025-04-20 10:15:11 +02:00
arch x86/ia32: Leave NULL selector values 0~3 unchanged 2025-04-20 10:15:11 +02:00
block block: fix 'kmem_cache of name 'bio-108' already exists' 2025-03-22 12:54:21 -07:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: api - Fix larval relookup type and mask 2025-04-10 14:39:20 +02:00
Documentation dt-bindings: vendor-prefixes: add GOcontroll 2025-04-10 14:39:13 +02:00
drivers iommu/mediatek: Fix NULL pointer deference in mtk_iommu_device_group 2025-04-20 10:15:09 +02:00
fs umount: Allow superblock owners to force umount 2025-04-20 10:15:10 +02:00
include perf: Fix hang while freeing sigtrap event 2025-04-20 10:15:10 +02:00
init ARM: 9443/1: Require linker to support KEEP within OVERLAY for DCE 2025-04-10 14:39:40 +02:00
io_uring io_uring/net: fix sendzc double notif flush 2025-03-28 22:03:32 +01:00
ipc ipc: fix memleak if msg_init_ns failed in create_ipc_ns 2024-12-05 14:03:02 +01:00
kernel perf: Fix hang while freeing sigtrap event 2025-04-20 10:15:10 +02:00
lib rust: fix signature of rust_fmt_argument 2025-04-10 14:39:20 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add 0BSD license text 2024-09-01 20:43:24 -07:00
mm mm: zswap: fix crypto_free_acomp() deadlock in zswap_cpu_comp_dead() 2025-04-10 14:39:40 +02:00
net nft_set_pipapo: fix incorrect avx2 match of 5th field octet 2025-04-20 10:15:09 +02:00
rust rust: Fix enabling Rust and building with GCC for LoongArch 2025-04-10 14:39:36 +02:00
samples rust: treewide: switch to the kernel Vec type 2025-03-13 13:01:46 +01:00
scripts kbuild: deb-pkg: don't set KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION unconditionally 2025-04-10 14:39:35 +02:00
security smack: ipv4/ipv6: tcp/dccp/sctp: fix incorrect child socket label 2025-04-10 14:39:10 +02:00
sound ASoC: Intel: adl: add 2xrt1316 audio configuration 2025-04-20 10:15:04 +02:00
tools pm: cpupower: bench: Prevent NULL dereference on malloc failure 2025-04-20 10:15:10 +02:00
usr kbuild: hdrcheck: fix cross build with clang 2025-03-13 13:02:18 +01:00
virt KVM: x86: switch hugepage recovery thread to vhost_task 2024-12-05 14:02:43 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.11-rc1's for_each macro list 2024-08-02 13:20:31 +02:00
.clippy.toml rust: enable Clippy's check-private-items 2025-03-13 13:01:42 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add Jeff Kirsher to .get_maintainer.ignore 2024-03-08 11:36:54 +00:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore rust: introduce .clippy.toml 2025-03-13 13:01:42 +01:00
.mailmap mailmap: add entry for Thorsten Blum 2024-11-07 14:14:59 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove self from DSA entry 2024-11-03 12:52:38 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: add entry for the Rust alloc module 2025-03-13 13:01:47 +01:00
Makefile Linux 6.12.23 2025-04-10 14:39:41 +02:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.