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Subject[3.1 patch] x86: default to vsyscall=native
After upgrading a kernel the existing userspace should just work
(assuming it did work before ;-) ), but when I upgraded my kernel
from 3.0.4 to 3.1.0-rc8 a UML instance didn't come up properly.

dmesg said:
linux-2.6.30.1[3800] vsyscall fault (exploit attempt?) ip:ffffffffff600000 cs:33 sp:7fbfb9c498 ax:ffffffffff600000 si:0 di:606790
linux-2.6.30.1[3856] vsyscall fault (exploit attempt?) ip:ffffffffff600000 cs:33 sp:7fbfb13168 ax:ffffffffff600000 si:0 di:606790

Looking throught the changelog I ended up at commit 3ae36655
("x86-64: Rework vsyscall emulation and add vsyscall= parameter").

Linus suggested in https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/9/376 to default to
vsyscall=native.

That sounds reasonable to me, and fixes the problem for me.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
---
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 ++++---
arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 854ed5ca..d6e6724 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2706,10 +2706,11 @@ 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 [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
- emulated reasonably safely.
+ emulate Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated
+ reasonably safely.

- native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
+ native [default] 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 18ae83d..b56c65de 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ DEFINE_VVAR(struct vsyscall_gtod_data, vsyscall_gtod_data) =
.lock = __SEQLOCK_UNLOCKED(__vsyscall_gtod_data.lock),
};

-static enum { EMULATE, NATIVE, NONE } vsyscall_mode = EMULATE;
+static enum { EMULATE, NATIVE, NONE } vsyscall_mode = NATIVE;

static int __init vsyscall_setup(char *str)
{
--
1.7.6.3


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