From 41bdc78544b8a93a9c6814b8bbbfef966272abbe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 16:48:16 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] x86/tls: Validate TLS entries to protect espfix Installing a 16-bit RW data segment into the GDT defeats espfix. AFAICT this will not affect glibc, Wine, or dosemu at all. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: security@kernel.org Cc: Willy Tarreau Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-format-patch failed