3.8.13.14-rt28-rc1 stable review patch.
If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
where do I start. Let me explain what is going on here. The code
sequence
| pushf
| pop %edx
| or $0x1,%dh
| push %edx
| mov $0xe0,%eax
| popf
| sysenter
triggers the bug. On 64bit kernel we see the double fault (with 32bit and
64bit userland) and on 32bit kernel there is no problem. The reporter said
that double fault does not happen on 64bit kernel with 64bit userland and
this is because in that case the VDSO uses the "syscall" interface instead
of "sysenter".
The bug. "popf" loads the flags with the TF bit set which enables
"single stepping" and this leads to a debug exception. Usually on 64bit
we have a special IST stack for the debug exception. Due to patch [0] we
do not use the IST stack but the kernel stack instead. On 64bit the
sysenter instruction starts in kernel with the stack address NULL. The
code sequence above enters the debug exception (TF flag) after the
sysenter instruction was executed which sets the stack pointer to NULL
and we have a fault (it seems that the debug exception saves some bytes
on the stack).
To fix the double fault I'm going to drop patch [0]. It is completely
pointless. In do_debug() and do_stack_segment() we disable preemption
which means the task can't leave the CPU. So it does not matter if we run
on IST or on kernel stack.
There is a patch [1] which drops preempt_disable() call for a 32bit
kernel but not for 64bit so there should be no regression.
And [1] seems valid even for this code sequence. We enter the debug
exception with a 256bytes long per cpu stack and migrate to the kernel
stack before calling do_debug().
[0] x86-disable-debug-stack.patch
[1] fix-rt-int3-x86_32-3.2-rt.patch
Cc: stable-rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reported-by: Brian Silverman <bsilver16384@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h | 21 ++++++---------------
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 2 --
arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c | 4 ----
3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h
index 65b85f4..320f7bb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h
@@ -14,21 +14,12 @@
#define IRQ_STACK_ORDER 2
#define IRQ_STACK_SIZE (PAGE_SIZE << IRQ_STACK_ORDER)
-#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_FULL
-# define STACKFAULT_STACK 0
-# define DOUBLEFAULT_STACK 1
-# define NMI_STACK 2
-# define DEBUG_STACK 0
-# define MCE_STACK 3
-# define N_EXCEPTION_STACKS 3 /* hw limit: 7 */
-#else
-# define STACKFAULT_STACK 1
-# define DOUBLEFAULT_STACK 2
-# define NMI_STACK 3
-# define DEBUG_STACK 4
-# define MCE_STACK 5
-# define N_EXCEPTION_STACKS 5 /* hw limit: 7 */
-#endif
+#define STACKFAULT_STACK 1
+#define DOUBLEFAULT_STACK 2
+#define NMI_STACK 3
+#define DEBUG_STACK 4
+#define MCE_STACK 5
+#define N_EXCEPTION_STACKS 5 /* hw limit: 7 */
#define PUD_PAGE_SIZE (_AC(1, UL) << PUD_SHIFT)
#define PUD_PAGE_MASK (~(PUD_PAGE_SIZE-1))
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
index 2636e0f..9c3ab43 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -1103,9 +1103,7 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, fpu_owner_task);
*/
static const unsigned int exception_stack_sizes[N_EXCEPTION_STACKS] = {
[0 ... N_EXCEPTION_STACKS - 1] = EXCEPTION_STKSZ,
-#if DEBUG_STACK > 0
[DEBUG_STACK - 1] = DEBUG_STKSZ
-#endif
};
static DEFINE_PER_CPU_PAGE_ALIGNED(char, exception_stacks
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c
index f16c07b..b653675 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c
@@ -21,14 +21,10 @@
(N_EXCEPTION_STACKS + DEBUG_STKSZ/EXCEPTION_STKSZ - 2)
static char x86_stack_ids[][8] = {
-#if DEBUG_STACK > 0
[ DEBUG_STACK-1 ] = "#DB",
-#endif
[ NMI_STACK-1 ] = "NMI",
[ DOUBLEFAULT_STACK-1 ] = "#DF",
-#if STACKFAULT_STACK > 0
[ STACKFAULT_STACK-1 ] = "#SS",
-#endif
[ MCE_STACK-1 ] = "#MC",
#if DEBUG_STKSZ > EXCEPTION_STKSZ
[ N_EXCEPTION_STACKS ...
--
1.8.5.3
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