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x86/iopl: Fix iopl capability check on Xen PV
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iopl(3) is supposed to work if iopl is already 3, even if
unprivileged.  This didn't work right on Xen PV.  Fix it.

Reviewewd-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8ce12013e6e4c0a44a97e316be4a6faff31bd5ea.1458162709.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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amluto authored and Ingo Molnar committed Mar 17, 2016
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12 changes: 9 additions & 3 deletions arch/x86/kernel/ioport.c
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Expand Up @@ -96,18 +96,24 @@ asmlinkage long sys_ioperm(unsigned long from, unsigned long num, int turn_on)
SYSCALL_DEFINE1(iopl, unsigned int, level)
{
struct pt_regs *regs = current_pt_regs();
unsigned int old = (regs->flags >> 12) & 3;
struct thread_struct *t = &current->thread;

/*
* Careful: the IOPL bits in regs->flags are undefined under Xen PV
* and changing them has no effect.
*/
unsigned int old = t->iopl >> X86_EFLAGS_IOPL_BIT;

if (level > 3)
return -EINVAL;
/* Trying to gain more privileges? */
if (level > old) {
if (!capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO))
return -EPERM;
}
regs->flags = (regs->flags & ~X86_EFLAGS_IOPL) | (level << 12);
t->iopl = level << 12;
regs->flags = (regs->flags & ~X86_EFLAGS_IOPL) |
(level << X86_EFLAGS_IOPL_BIT);
t->iopl = level << X86_EFLAGS_IOPL_BIT;
set_iopl_mask(t->iopl);

return 0;
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