From 329e7f58ae607c2dccc7e523e56c60d373dc6e4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Beulich Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 17:34:09 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] x86: Don't leak 64-bit kernel register values to 32-bit processes commit 24e35800cdc4350fc34e2bed37b608a9e13ab3b6 upstream x86: Don't leak 64-bit kernel register values to 32-bit processes While 32-bit processes can't directly access R8...R15, they can gain access to these registers by temporarily switching themselves into 64-bit mode. Therefore, registers not preserved anyway by called C functions (i.e. R8...R11) must be cleared prior to returning to user mode. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich LKML-Reference: <4AC34D73020000780001744A@vpn.id2.novell.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Chuck Ebbert Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Reading git-format-patch failed