This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled x86/iopl: Fix iopl capability check on Xen PV to the 4.5-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: x86-iopl-fix-iopl-capability-check-on-xen-pv.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.5 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From c29016cf41fe9fa994a5ecca607cf5f1cd98801e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 14:14:22 -0700 Subject: x86/iopl: Fix iopl capability check on Xen PV From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> commit c29016cf41fe9fa994a5ecca607cf5f1cd98801e upstream. 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@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8ce12013e6e4c0a44a97e316be4a6faff31bd5ea.1458162709.git.luto@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/ioport.c | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/ioport.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ioport.c @@ -96,9 +96,14 @@ asmlinkage long sys_ioperm(unsigned long SYSCALL_DEFINE1(iopl, unsigned int, level) { struct pt_regs *regs = current_pt_regs(); - unsigned int old = (regs->flags >> 12) & 3; struct thread_struct *t = ¤t->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? */ @@ -106,8 +111,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(iopl, unsigned int, leve 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; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from luto@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.5/x86-iopl-64-properly-context-switch-iopl-on-xen-pv.patch queue-4.5/x86-iopl-fix-iopl-capability-check-on-xen-pv.patch queue-4.5/x86-entry-compat-keep-ts_compat-set-during-signal-delivery.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html