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Commit fc3e958a authored by Denys Vlasenko's avatar Denys Vlasenko Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86/asm/entry: Clear EXTRA_REGS for all executable formats



On failure, sys_execve() does not clobber EXTRA_REGS, so we can
just return to userpsace without saving/restoring them.

On success, ELF_PLAT_INIT() in sys_execve() clears all these
registers.

On other executable formats:

  - binfmt_flat.c has similar FLAT_PLAT_INIT, but x86 (and everyone
    else except sh) doesn't define it.

  - binfmt_elf_fdpic.c has ELF_FDPIC_PLAT_INIT, but x86 (and most
    others) doesn't define it.

  - There are no such hooks in binfmt_aout.c et al. We inherit
    EXTRA_REGS from the prior executable.

This inconsistency was not intended.

This change removes SAVE/RESTORE_EXTRA_REGS in stub_execve,
removes register clearing in ELF_PLAT_INIT(),
and instead simply clears them on success in stub_execve.

Run-tested.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDenys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428173719-7637-1-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 6a3713f0
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