Hi,
I've been running into a weird problem with UMIP on a current Ryzen
3900x with kernel 5.6.11 where a process receives a page fault after the
kernel handled the SLDT (or SIDT) instruction (emulation).
The program I am running is run through WINE in 32bit mode and tries to
figure out if it is running in a VMWare machine by comparing the results
of SLDT against well known constants (basically as shown in the
[example] linked below).
In dmesg I see the following log lines:
> [99970.004756] umip: Program.exe[3080] ip:4373fb sp:32f3e0: SIDT instruction cannot be used by applications.
> [99970.004757] umip: Program.exe[3080] ip:4373fb sp:32f3e0: For now, expensive software emulation returns the result.
> [99970.004758] umip: Program.exe[3080] ip:437415 sp:32f3e0: SLDT instruction cannot be used by applications.
Following that the process terminates with a page fault:
> Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0xffffffff in 32-bit code (0x0000000000437415).
Assembly at that address:
> 0x0000000000437415: sldt 0xffffffe8(%ebp)
Running the same executable on the exact same kernel (and userland) but
on a Intel i7-8565U doesn't crash at this point. I am guessing the
emulation is supposed to do something different on AMD CPUs?
On the Ryzen the code executes successfully after setting CONFIG_X86_UMIP=n.
I'd love to contriubte a patch but I have no knowledge of the inner
workings of how UMIP actually works.
Is there anything else I can provide to help debugging/fixing this? Very
happy to test patches as well.
[example] https://www.aldeid.com/wiki/X86-assembly/Instructions/sldt
On 2020-05-19 07:38, Andreas Rammhold wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been running into a weird problem with UMIP on a current Ryzen
> 3900x with kernel 5.6.11 where a process receives a page fault after the
> kernel handled the SLDT (or SIDT) instruction (emulation).
>
> The program I am running is run through WINE in 32bit mode and tries to
> figure out if it is running in a VMWare machine by comparing the results
> of SLDT against well known constants (basically as shown in the
> [example] linked below).
>
Extremely weird. What is it expecting to happen -- or rather, what do you
*want* it to do?
-hpa