1. 28 4月, 2012 1 次提交
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      ARM: 7403/1: tls: remove covert channel via TPIDRURW · 6a1c5312
      Will Deacon 提交于
      TPIDRURW is a user read/write register forming part of the group of
      thread registers in more recent versions of the ARM architecture (~v6+).
      
      Currently, the kernel does not touch this register, which allows tasks
      to communicate covertly by reading and writing to the register without
      context-switching affecting its contents.
      
      This patch clears TPIDRURW when TPIDRURO is updated via the set_tls
      macro, which is called directly from __switch_to. Since the current
      behaviour makes the register useless to userspace as far as thread
      pointers are concerned, simply clearing the register (rather than saving
      and restoring it) will not cause any problems to userspace.
      
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: NWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
      6a1c5312
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