tree e001954a352ebaeee25024ea8504de885094eb80
parent a392e77326bdac33167565980b00034e0d756434
author H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> 1398891805 -0700
committer chrmhoffmann <chrmhoffmann@gmail.com> 1586074824 +0200

x86-32, espfix: Remove filter for espfix32 due to race

commit 246f2d2ee1d715e1077fc47d61c394569c8ee692 upstream.

It is not safe to use LAR to filter when to go down the espfix path,
because the LDT is per-process (rather than per-thread) and another
thread might change the descriptors behind our back.  Fortunately it
is always *safe* (if a bit slow) to go down the espfix path, and a
32-bit LDT stack segment is extremely rare.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398816946-3351-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>