1. 01 May, 2006 1 commit
  2. 19 Apr, 2006 1 commit
    • Andi Kleen's avatar
      [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Fix x87 information leak between processes (CVE-2006-1056) · 7466f9e7
      Andi Kleen authored
      
      AMD K7/K8 CPUs only save/restore the FOP/FIP/FDP x87 registers in FXSAVE
      when an exception is pending.  This means the value leak through context
      switches and allow processes to observe some x87 instruction state of
      other processes.
      
      This was actually documented by AMD, but nobody recognized it as being
      different from Intel before.
      
      The fix first adds an optimization: instead of unconditionally calling
      FNCLEX after each FXSAVE test if ES is pending and skip it when not
      needed. Then do a x87 load from a kernel variable to clear FOP/FIP/FDP.
      
      This means other processes always will only see a constant value defined
      by the kernel in their FP state.
      
      I took some pain to make sure to chose a variable that's already in L1
      during context switch to make the overhead of this low.
      
      Also alternative() is used to patch away the new code on CPUs who don't
      need it.
      
      Patch for both i386/x86-64.
      
      The problem was discovered originally by Jan Beulich. Richard Brunner
      provided the basic code for the workarounds, with contribution from Jan.
      
      This is CVE-2006-1056
      
      Cc: richard.brunner@amd.com
      Cc: jbeulich@novell.com
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      7466f9e7
  3. 12 Jan, 2006 1 commit
  4. 22 Jul, 2005 2 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      x86: use alternative instructions for fnsave/fxsave too · 2847e347
      Linus Torvalds authored
      This one ends up using an inline asm format that claims to read memory
      and then clobber it (rather than just write it directly), which made it
      easier to use the existing "alternative_input()" infrastructure support.
      
      Now the fxsave code matches the fxrstor.
      2847e347
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      x86: make restore_fpu() use alternative assembler instructions · 8ed1383f
      Linus Torvalds authored
      It's really just a single instruction, conditional on whether the CPU
      supports FXSR or not, so implement it as such instead of making it a
      function that queries FXSR dynamically.
      
      This means that the instruction just gets automatically rewritten to the
      correct one at boot-time.
      8ed1383f
  5. 16 Apr, 2005 1 commit
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
      even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
      archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
      3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
      git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
      infrastructure for it.
      
      Let it rip!
      1da177e4