Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754192AbaD1XGz (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2014 19:06:55 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:52653 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752088AbaD1XGy (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2014 19:06:54 -0400 Message-ID: <535EDEC5.7030209@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 16:05:41 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Lutomirski , comex CC: "H. Peter Anvin" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Alexander van Heukelum , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Boris Ostrovsky , Borislav Petkov , Arjan van de Ven , Brian Gerst , Alexandre Julliard , Andi Kleen , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86-64: espfix for 64-bit mode *PROTOTYPE* References: <1398120472-6190-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 04/23/2014 09:53 PM, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: > > This particular vector hurts: you can safely keep trying until it works. > > This just gave me an evil idea: what if we make the whole espfix area > read-only? This has some weird effects. To switch to the espfix > stack, you have to write to an alias. That's a little strange but > harmless and barely complicates the implementation. If the iret > faults, though, I think the result will be a #DF. This may actually > be a good thing: if the #DF handler detects that the cause was a bad > espfix iret, it could just return directly to bad_iret or send the > signal itself the same way that do_stack_segment does. This could > even be written in C :) > > Peter, is this idea completely nuts? The only exceptions that can > happen there are NMI, MCE, #DB, #SS, and #GP. The first four use IST, > so they won't double-fault. > So I tried writing this bit up, but it fails in some rather spectacular ways. Furthermore, I have been unable to debug it under Qemu, because breakpoints don't work right (common Qemu problem, sadly.) The kernel code is at: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/hpa/espfix64.git/ There are two tests: git://git.zytor.com/users/hpa/test16/test16.git, build it, and run ./run16 test/hello.elf http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/ldttest.c The former will exercise the irq_return_ldt path, but not the fault path; the latter will exercise the fault path, but doesn't actually use a 16-bit segment. Under the 3.14 stock kernel, the former should die with SIGBUS and the latter should pass. -hpa -- 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/