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From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 21:43:32 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] x86/head: Remove unused 'bad_address' code
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CVE-2017-5754

It's no longer possible for this code to be executed, so remove it.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/32a46fe92d2083700599b36872b26e7dfd7b7965.1505764066.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
(cherry picked from commit a8b88e84d124bc92c4808e72b8b8c0e0bb538630)
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>
(cherry picked from commit d790ff35a3a49ef0942a3484f024551433fd2ddf)
Signed-off-by: Fabian Grünbichler <f.gruenbichler@proxmox.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
index 627c798b2f15..37d9905d38d6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
@@ -249,9 +249,6 @@ ENDPROC(start_cpu0)
 	.quad  init_thread_union + THREAD_SIZE - SIZEOF_PTREGS
 	__FINITDATA
 
-bad_address:
-	jmp bad_address
-
 	__INIT
 ENTRY(early_idt_handler_array)
 	i = 0
-- 
2.14.2

