On Wed, 14 Oct, at 02:39:58PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
> Trivia for your amusement:
>
> AFAICT it's entirely permissible for the GDTR and/or LDT descriptor to
> point to unmapped memory. Any attempt to use them (segment loads,
> interrupts, IRET, etc) will try to access that memory as if the access
> came from CPL 0 and, if the access fails, will generate a valid page
> fault with CR2 pointing into the GDT or LDT.
>
> Xen is nuts^Wclever and actually uses this.
>
> Of course, if your #PF vector references a GDT or LDT descriptor and
> trying to load that descriptor results in a page fault, you get a
> double fault.
>
> I learned this while trying to puzzle out why v1 of my LDT
> synchronization patch caused random faults on Xen.
Ha, interesting! Thanks Andy, it's good to get confirmation.
OK, I think we understand this issue well enough to call this fixed.
I've queued the following patch up in my urgent tree and I'll send a
pull request to the tip folks tomorrow.
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>From 72ac9f242fad7c3bf3e06461e34c9a546d8cb411 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 13:30:45 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] x86/setup: Extend low identity map to cover whole kernel
range
On 32-bit systems, the initial_page_table is reused by
efi_call_phys_prolog as an identity map to call
SetVirtualAddressMap. efi_call_phys_prolog takes care of
converting the current CPU's GDT to a physical address too.
For PAE kernels the identity mapping is achieved by aliasing the
first PDPE for the kernel memory mapping into the first PDPE
of initial_page_table. This makes the EFI stub's trick "just work".
However, for non-PAE kernels there is no guarantee that the identity
mapping in the initial_page_table extends as far as the GDT; in this
case, accesses to the GDT will cause a page fault (which quickly becomes
a triple fault). Fix this by copying the kernel mappings from
swapper_pg_dir to initial_page_table twice, both at PAGE_OFFSET and at
identity mapping.
For some reason, this is only reproducible with QEMU's dynamic translation
mode, and not for example with KVM. However, even under KVM one can clearly
see that the page table is bogus:
$ qemu-system-i386 -pflash OVMF.fd -M q35 vmlinuz0 -s -S -daemonize
$ gdb
(gdb) target remote localhost:1234
(gdb) hb *0x02858f6f
Hardware assisted breakpoint 1 at 0x2858f6f
(gdb) c
Continuing.
Breakpoint 1, 0x02858f6f in ?? ()
(gdb) monitor info registers
...
GDT= 0724e000 000000ff
IDT= fffbb000 000007ff
CR0=0005003b CR2=ff896000 CR3=032b7000 CR4=00000690
...
The page directory is sane:
(gdb) x/4wx 0x32b7000
0x32b7000: 0x03398063 0x03399063 0x0339a063 0x0339b063
(gdb) x/4wx 0x3398000
0x3398000: 0x00000163 0x00001163 0x00002163 0x00003163
(gdb) x/4wx 0x3399000
0x3399000: 0x00400003 0x00401003 0x00402003 0x00403003
but our particular page directory entry is empty:
(gdb) x/1wx 0x32b7000 + (0x724e000 >> 22) * 4
0x32b7070: 0x00000000
[ It appears that you can skate past this issue if you don't receive
any interrupts while the bogus GDT pointer is loaded, or if you avoid
reloading the segment registers in general.
Andy Lutomirski provides some additional insight:
"AFAICT it's entirely permissible for the GDTR and/or LDT
descriptor to point to unmapped memory. Any attempt to use them
(segment loads, interrupts, IRET, etc) will try to access that memory
as if the access came from CPL 0 and, if the access fails, will
generate a valid page fault with CR2 pointing into the GDT or
LDT."
Up until commit 23a0d4e8fa6d ("efi: Disable interrupts around EFI
calls, not in the epilog/prolog calls") interrupts were disabled
around the prolog and epilog calls, and the functional GDT was
re-installed before interrupts were re-enabled.
Which explains why no one has hit this issue until now. ]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx>
[ Updated changelog. ]
---
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
index fdb7f2a2d328..a3cccbfc5f77 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
@@ -1173,6 +1173,14 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
clone_pgd_range(initial_page_table + KERNEL_PGD_BOUNDARY,
swapper_pg_dir + KERNEL_PGD_BOUNDARY,
KERNEL_PGD_PTRS);
+
+ /*
+ * sync back low identity map too. It is used for example
+ * in the 32-bit EFI stub.
+ */
+ clone_pgd_range(initial_page_table,
+ swapper_pg_dir + KERNEL_PGD_BOUNDARY,
+ KERNEL_PGD_PTRS);
#endif
tboot_probe();
--
2.1.0
--
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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