This bug On 05/01/2016 18:46, Jiri Slaby wrote: > From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> > > 3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > =============== > > commit f5f3497cad8c8416a74b9aaceb127908755d020a upstream. > > 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. ] Without testing the problematic scenario explicitly (32-bit UEFI kernel), I think this patch and 26/91 should not be backported to kernels that do not have 23a0d4e8fa6d. Paolo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html