Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755311Ab3JGJt2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Oct 2013 05:49:28 -0400 Received: from smtp02.citrix.com ([66.165.176.63]:56686 "EHLO SMTP02.CITRIX.COM" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754969Ab3JGJt1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Oct 2013 05:49:27 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.90,1049,1371081600"; d="scan'208";a="58282407" Message-ID: <525283A5.4020904@citrix.com> Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:49:25 +0100 From: Andrew Cooper User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130827 Icedove/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Frediano Ziglio CC: Boris Ostrovsky , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , David Vrabel , , Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] xen: Fix possible user space selector corruption References: <1380788677.30462.1.camel@hamster.uk.xensource.com> <524D4132.3000809@citrix.com> <1380804692.30462.3.camel@hamster.uk.xensource.com> <20131004132033.GA26673@phenom.dumpdata.com> <524EC3C1.4010304@citrix.com> <5252815E.70504@citrix.com> <1381139286.31436.2.camel@hamster.uk.xensource.com> In-Reply-To: <1381139286.31436.2.camel@hamster.uk.xensource.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-DLP: MIA2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2487 Lines: 65 On 07/10/13 10:48, Frediano Ziglio wrote: > Due to the way kernel is initialized under Xen is possible that the > ring1 selector used by the kernel for the boot cpu end up to be copied > to userspace leading to segmentation fault in the userspace. > > Xen code in the kernel initialize no-boot cpus with correct selectors (ds > and es set to __USER_DS) but the boot one keep the ring1 (passed by Xen). > On task context switch (switch_to) we assume that ds, es and cs already > point to __USER_DS and __KERNEL_CSso these selector are not changed. > > If processor is an Intel that support sysenter instruction sysenter/sysexit > is used so ds and es are not restored switching back from kernel to > userspace. In the case the selectors point to a ring1 instead of __USER_DS > the userspace code will crash on first memory access attempt (to be > precise Xen on the emulated iret used to do sysexit will detect and set ds > and es to zero which lead to GPF anyway). > > Now if an userspace process call kernel using sysenter and get rescheduled > (for me it happen on a specific init calling wait4) could happen that the > ring1 selector is set to ds and es. > > This is quite hard to detect cause after a while these selectors are fixed > (__USER_DS seems sticky). > > Bisecting the code commit 7076aada1040de4ed79a5977dbabdb5e5ea5e249 appears > to be the first one that have this issue. > > Signed-off-by: Frediano Ziglio Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper > --- > arch/x86/xen/smp.c | 9 +++++++++ > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) > > > Just changed comment on source code as suggested by Andrew Cooper. > > > diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/smp.c b/arch/x86/xen/smp.c > index d99cae8..6d89fcc 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/xen/smp.c > +++ b/arch/x86/xen/smp.c > @@ -245,6 +245,15 @@ static void __init xen_smp_prepare_boot_cpu(void) > old memory can be recycled */ > make_lowmem_page_readwrite(xen_initial_gdt); > > +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 > + /* > + * Xen starts us with XEN_FLAT_RING1_DS, but linux code > + * expects __USER_DS > + */ > + loadsegment(ds, __USER_DS); > + loadsegment(es, __USER_DS); > +#endif > + > xen_filter_cpu_maps(); > xen_setup_vcpu_info_placement(); > } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/