linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch/x86
Andy Lutomirski 076ca272a1 x86/vsyscall/64: Drop "native" vsyscalls
Since Linux v3.2, vsyscalls have been deprecated and slow.  From v3.2
on, Linux had three vsyscall modes: "native", "emulate", and "none".

"emulate" is the default.  All known user programs work correctly in
emulate mode, but vsyscalls turn into page faults and are emulated.
This is very slow.  In "native" mode, the vsyscall page is easily
usable as an exploit gadget, but vsyscalls are a bit faster -- they
turn into normal syscalls.  (This is in contrast to vDSO functions,
which can be much faster than syscalls.)  In "none" mode, there are
no vsyscalls.

For all practical purposes, "native" was really just a chicken bit
in case something went wrong with the emulation.  It's been over six
years, and nothing has gone wrong.  Delete it.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/519fee5268faea09ae550776ce969fa6e88668b0.1520449896.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-03-08 06:48:15 +01:00
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boot
configs
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2018-02-12 08:57:21 -08:00
entry x86/vsyscall/64: Drop "native" vsyscalls 2018-03-08 06:48:15 +01:00
events Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-02-14 17:02:15 -08:00
hyperv KVM changes for 4.16 2018-02-10 13:16:35 -08:00
ia32 x86/entry: Do not special-case clone(2) in compat entry 2018-03-07 07:57:31 +01:00
include x86/vsyscall/64: Drop "native" vsyscalls 2018-03-08 06:48:15 +01:00
kernel x86/syscalls: Use proper syscall definition for sys_ioperm() 2018-03-07 07:57:30 +01:00
kvm KVM/VMX: Optimize vmx_vcpu_run() and svm_vcpu_run() by marking the RDMSR path as unlikely() 2018-02-23 08:24:36 +01:00
lib Revert "x86/retpoline: Simplify vmexit_fill_RSB()" 2018-02-20 09:38:26 +01:00
math-emu
mm x86/cpu_entry_area: Sync cpu_entry_area to initial_page_table 2018-03-01 09:48:27 +01:00
net
oprofile
pci pci-v4.16-changes 2018-02-06 09:59:40 -08:00
platform Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-02-14 17:02:15 -08:00
power x86: hibernate: fix swsusp_arch_resume() prototype 2018-02-07 12:18:23 +01:00
purgatory
ras
realmode x86-64/realmode: Add instruction suffix 2018-02-20 09:33:41 +01:00
tools
um
video
xen x86/xen: Zero MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL before suspend 2018-02-28 16:03:19 +01:00
.gitignore
Kbuild
Kconfig x86/vsyscall/64: Drop "native" vsyscalls 2018-03-08 06:48:15 +01:00
Kconfig.cpu
Kconfig.debug
Makefile objtool, retpolines: Integrate objtool with retpoline support more closely 2018-02-21 16:54:32 +01:00
Makefile_32.cpu
Makefile.um