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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>2014-05-21 23:03:15 -0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>2014-05-21 23:03:15 -0300
commite899966f626f1f657a4a7bac736c0b9ae5a243ea (patch)
treea4bb8362d871da67b41fee27bb85ad0bc83e0591 /arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
parentba0d342ecc21fbbe2f6c178f4479944d1fb34f3b (diff)
parent4b660a7f5c8099d88d1a43d8ae138965112592c7 (diff)
Merge tag 'v3.15-rc6' into patchwork
Linux 3.15-rc6 * tag 'v3.15-rc6': (1314 commits) Linux 3.15-rc6 Btrfs: send, fix incorrect ref access when using extrefs Btrfs: fix EIO on reading file after ioctl clone works on it scripts/checksyscalls.sh: Make renameat optional asm-generic: Add renameat2 syscall ia64: add renameat2 syscall parisc: add renameat2 syscall m68k: add renameat2 syscall sysfs: make sure read buffer is zeroed ahci: imx: PLL clock needs 100us to settle down PCI: Wrong register used to check pending traffic target: fix memory leak on XCOPY random: fix BUG_ON caused by accounting simplification clk: tegra: Fix wrong value written to PLLE_AUX staging: rtl8723au: Do not reset wdev->iftype in netdev_close() ACPI / video: Revert native brightness quirk for ThinkPad T530 staging: rtl8723au: Use correct pipe type for USB interrupts crush: decode and initialize chooseleaf_vary_r libceph: fix corruption when using page_count 0 page in rbd arm64: fix pud_huge() for 2-level pagetables ...
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 af1d14a9ebd..dcbbaa165bd 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;
}