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authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2014-05-21 10:22:59 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2014-08-07 16:53:52 -0700
commit4a4545cd24e90b942a46c99a7c4f40c60ab54b13 (patch)
tree995286ad2ded62d31c38da2754fe83111b117440
parentd7bbbf4552fc9d1c6483b305839f89d3943ee189 (diff)
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Revert "x86-64, modify_ldt: Make support for 16-bit segments a runtime option"
commit 7ed6fb9b5a5510e4ef78ab27419184741169978a upstream. This reverts commit fa81511bb0bbb2b1aace3695ce869da9762624ff in preparation of merging in the proper fix (espfix64). Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c4
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/vdso/vdso32-setup.c8
2 files changed, 1 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
index dcbbaa165bde..af1d14a9ebda 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
@@ -20,8 +20,6 @@
#include <asm/mmu_context.h>
#include <asm/syscalls.h>
-int sysctl_ldt16 = 0;
-
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
static void flush_ldt(void *current_mm)
{
@@ -236,7 +234,7 @@ 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 && !sysctl_ldt16) {
+ if (!ldt_info.seg_32bit) {
error = -EINVAL;
goto out_unlock;
}
diff --git a/arch/x86/vdso/vdso32-setup.c b/arch/x86/vdso/vdso32-setup.c
index 310c5f0dbef1..3adf2e6ad7d6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/vdso/vdso32-setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/vdso/vdso32-setup.c
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
#define vdso_enabled sysctl_vsyscall32
#define arch_setup_additional_pages syscall32_setup_pages
-extern int sysctl_ldt16;
#endif
/*
@@ -251,13 +250,6 @@ static struct ctl_table abi_table2[] = {
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = proc_dointvec
},
- {
- .procname = "ldt16",
- .data = &sysctl_ldt16,
- .maxlen = sizeof(int),
- .mode = 0644,
- .proc_handler = proc_dointvec
- },
{}
};