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| author | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2014-05-21 10:22:59 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2014-08-07 14:52:38 -0700 |
| commit | 8602f4a127351e176d1c439d7223b78691cae461 (patch) | |
| tree | aa47f452b2232602230cdfd670ae5225c87747ef /arch/x86/kernel | |
| parent | 65337015afb47e285c46499557d75f6d0b872047 (diff) | |
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/x86/kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 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; } |