From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 00:33:41 +0000 (-0800) Subject: x86: Default to vsyscall=emulate X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2e57ae0515124af45dd889bfbd4840fd40fcc07d;p=mv-sheeva.git x86: Default to vsyscall=emulate This essentially reverts: 2b666859ec32: x86: Default to vsyscall=native for now The ABI breakage should now be fixed by: commit 48c4206f5b02f28c4c78a1f5b491d3772fb64fb9 Author: Andy Lutomirski Date: Thu Oct 20 08:48:19 2011 -0700 x86-64: Set siginfo and context on vsyscall emulation faults Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Cc: richard -rw- weinberger Cc: Adrian Bunk Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Linus Torvalds Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/93154af3b2b6d208906ae02d80d92cf60c6fa94f.1320712291.git.luto@amacapital.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index a0c5c5f4fce..ce7fc8b3e2c 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2750,11 +2750,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice targets for exploits that can control RIP. - emulate Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated - reasonably safely. + emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are + emulated reasonably safely. - native [default] Vsyscalls are native syscall - instructions. + native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions. This is a little bit faster than trapping and makes a few dynamic recompilers work better than they would in emulation mode. diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c index 8084beccd64..b07ba939356 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ DEFINE_VVAR(struct vsyscall_gtod_data, vsyscall_gtod_data) = .lock = __SEQLOCK_UNLOCKED(__vsyscall_gtod_data.lock), }; -static enum { EMULATE, NATIVE, NONE } vsyscall_mode = NATIVE; +static enum { EMULATE, NATIVE, NONE } vsyscall_mode = EMULATE; static int __init vsyscall_setup(char *str) {