Kirill A. Shutemov
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commita0e6e0831cupstream modify_ldt(2) leaves the old LDT mapped after switching over to the new one. The old LDT gets freed and the pages can be re-used. Leaving the mapping in place can have security implications. The mapping is present in the userspace page tables and Meltdown-like attacks can read these freed and possibly reused pages. It's relatively simple to fix: unmap the old LDT and flush TLB before freeing the old LDT memory. This further allows to avoid flushing the TLB in map_ldt_struct() as the slot is unmapped and flushed by unmap_ldt_struct() or has never been mapped at all. [ tglx: Massaged changelog and removed the needless line breaks ] Fixes:f55f0501cb("x86/pti: Put the LDT in its own PGD if PTI is on") Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: bp@alien8.de Cc: hpa@zytor.com Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com Cc: luto@kernel.org Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com Cc: jgross@suse.com Cc: bhe@redhat.com Cc: willy@infradead.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181026122856.66224-3-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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