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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 14:30:26 -0700
commitd6b0ea8a938e4c05a00139793a405b764e63e37b (patch)
treec5adc35e60473270721b460bee280bd64fbf3c3a /arch
parent562eebeb9c07101e49f6803fd018ac45a01e3f43 (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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-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 0f134c7cfc24..0faad646f5fd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/vdso/vdso32-setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/vdso/vdso32-setup.c
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ enum {
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
#define vdso_enabled sysctl_vsyscall32
#define arch_setup_additional_pages syscall32_setup_pages
-extern int sysctl_ldt16;
#endif
/*
@@ -381,13 +380,6 @@ static ctl_table abi_table2[] = {
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = proc_dointvec
},
- {
- .procname = "ldt16",
- .data = &sysctl_ldt16,
- .maxlen = sizeof(int),
- .mode = 0644,
- .proc_handler = proc_dointvec
- },
{}
};