x86/entry/64: Remove the SYSENTER stack canary
authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Mon, 4 Dec 2017 14:07:27 +0000 (15:07 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Sun, 17 Dec 2017 13:27:51 +0000 (14:27 +0100)
commit7fbbd5cbebf118a9e09f5453f686656a167c3d1c
tree93baa3bc3d3dd933d75ba5336674e78e3f328b7b
parent40e7f949e0d9a33968ebde5d67f7e3a47c97742a
x86/entry/64: Remove the SYSENTER stack canary

Now that the SYSENTER stack has a guard page, there's no need for a canary
to detect overflow after the fact.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bpetkov@suse.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@amazon.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: aliguori@amazon.com
Cc: daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at
Cc: hughd@google.com
Cc: keescook@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171204150606.572577316@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
arch/x86/kernel/process.c
arch/x86/kernel/traps.c