On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 4:29 AM, Joerg Roedel <joro@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx>
>
> It can happen that we enter the kernel from kernel-mode and
> on the entry-stack. The most common way this happens is when
> we get an exception while loading the user-space segment
> registers on the kernel-to-userspace exit path.
>
> The segment loading needs to be done after the entry-stack
> switch, because the stack-switch needs kernel %fs for
> per_cpu access.
>
> When this happens, we need to make sure that we leave the
> kernel with the entry-stack again, so that the interrupted
> code-path runs on the right stack when switching to the
> user-cr3.
>
> We do this by detecting this condition on kernel-entry by
> checking CS.RPL and %esp, and if it happens, we copy over
> the complete content of the entry stack to the task-stack.
> This needs to be done because once we enter the exception
> handlers we might be scheduled out or even migrated to a
> different CPU, so that we can't rely on the entry-stack
> contents. We also leave a marker in the stack-frame to
> detect this condition on the exit path.
>
> On the exit path the copy is reversed, we copy all of the
> remaining task-stack back to the entry-stack and switch
> to it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S | 116 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 115 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
> index 3d1a114..b3af76e 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
> @@ -299,6 +299,9 @@
> * copied there. So allocate the stack-frame on the task-stack and
> * switch to it before we do any copying.
> */
> +
> +#define CS_FROM_ENTRY_STACK (1 << 31)
> +
> .macro SWITCH_TO_KERNEL_STACK
>
> ALTERNATIVE "", "jmp .Lend_\@", X86_FEATURE_XENPV
> @@ -320,6 +323,16 @@
> /* Load top of task-stack into %edi */
> movl TSS_entry_stack(%edi), %edi
>
> + /*
> + * Clear upper bits of the CS slot in pt_regs in case hardware
> + * didn't clear it for us
> + */
> + andl $(0x0000ffff), PT_CS(%esp)
The comment is highly confusing, give that the upper bits aren't part
of the slot any more:
commit 385eca8f277c4c34f361a4c3a088fd876d29ae21
Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Jul 28 06:00:30 2017 -0700
x86/asm/32: Make pt_regs's segment registers be 16 bits
What you're really doing is keeping it available for an extra flag.
Please update the comment as such. But see below.
> +
> + /* Special case - entry from kernel mode via entry stack */
> + testl $SEGMENT_RPL_MASK, PT_CS(%esp)
> + jz .Lentry_from_kernel_\@
> +
> /* Bytes to copy */
> movl $PTREGS_SIZE, %ecx
>
> @@ -333,8 +346,8 @@
> */
> addl $(4 * 4), %ecx
>
> -.Lcopy_pt_regs_\@:
> #endif
> +.Lcopy_pt_regs_\@:
>
> /* Allocate frame on task-stack */
> subl %ecx, %edi
> @@ -350,6 +363,56 @@
> cld
> rep movsl
>
> + jmp .Lend_\@
> +
> +.Lentry_from_kernel_\@:
> +
> + /*
> + * This handles the case when we enter the kernel from
> + * kernel-mode and %esp points to the entry-stack. When this
> + * happens we need to switch to the task-stack to run C code,
> + * but switch back to the entry-stack again when we approach
> + * iret and return to the interrupted code-path. This usually
> + * happens when we hit an exception while restoring user-space
> + * segment registers on the way back to user-space.
> + *
> + * When we switch to the task-stack here, we can't trust the
> + * contents of the entry-stack anymore, as the exception handler
> + * might be scheduled out or moved to another CPU. Therefore we
> + * copy the complete entry-stack to the task-stack and set a
> + * marker in the iret-frame (bit 31 of the CS dword) to detect
> + * what we've done on the iret path.
> + *
> + * On the iret path we copy everything back and switch to the
> + * entry-stack, so that the interrupted kernel code-path
> + * continues on the same stack it was interrupted with.
> + *
> + * Be aware that an NMI can happen anytime in this code.
> + *
> + * %esi: Entry-Stack pointer (same as %esp)
> + * %edi: Top of the task stack
> + */
> +
> + /* Calculate number of bytes on the entry stack in %ecx */
> + movl %esi, %ecx
> +
> + /* %ecx to the top of entry-stack */
> + andl $(MASK_entry_stack), %ecx
> + addl $(SIZEOF_entry_stack), %ecx
> +
> + /* Number of bytes on the entry stack to %ecx */
> + sub %esi, %ecx
> +
> + /* Mark stackframe as coming from entry stack */
> + orl $CS_FROM_ENTRY_STACK, PT_CS(%esp)
> +
> + /*
> + * %esi and %edi are unchanged, %ecx contains the number of
> + * bytes to copy. The code at .Lcopy_pt_regs_\@ will allocate
> + * the stack-frame on task-stack and copy everything over
> + */
> + jmp .Lcopy_pt_regs_\@
> +
> .Lend_\@:
> .endm
>
> @@ -408,6 +471,56 @@
> .endm
>
> /*
> + * This macro handles the case when we return to kernel-mode on the iret
> + * path and have to switch back to the entry stack.
> + *
> + * See the comments below the .Lentry_from_kernel_\@ label in the
> + * SWITCH_TO_KERNEL_STACK macro for more details.
> + */
> +.macro PARANOID_EXIT_TO_KERNEL_MODE
> +
> + /*
> + * Test if we entered the kernel with the entry-stack. Most
> + * likely we did not, because this code only runs on the
> + * return-to-kernel path.
> + */
> + testl $CS_FROM_ENTRY_STACK, PT_CS(%esp)
> + jz .Lend_\@
> +
> + /* Unlikely slow-path */
> +
> + /* Clear marker from stack-frame */
> + andl $(~CS_FROM_ENTRY_STACK), PT_CS(%esp)
> +
> + /* Copy the remaining task-stack contents to entry-stack */
> + movl %esp, %esi
> + movl PER_CPU_VAR(cpu_tss_rw + TSS_sp0), %edi
I'm confused. Why do we need any special handling here at all? How
could we end up with the contents of the stack frame we interrupted in
a corrupt state?
I guess I don't understand why this patch is needed.
