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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 6/8] x86/entry: add unwind hint annotations
On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 11:50:18AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> wrote:
> > There's a bug here that will need a small change to the entry code.
> >
> > Mike Galbraith reported:
> >
> > WARNING: can't dereference registers at ffffc900089d7e08 for ip ffffffff81740bbb
> >
> > After some looking I found that it's caused by the following code
> > snippet in the 'interrupt' macro in entry_64.S:
> >
> > /*
> > * Save previous stack pointer, optionally switch to interrupt stack.
> > * irq_count is used to check if a CPU is already on an interrupt stack
> > * or not. While this is essentially redundant with preempt_count it is
> > * a little cheaper to use a separate counter in the PDA (short of
> > * moving irq_enter into assembly, which would be too much work)
> > */
> > movq %rsp, %rdi
> > incl PER_CPU_VAR(irq_count)
> > cmovzq PER_CPU_VAR(irq_stack_ptr), %rsp
> > UNWIND_HINT_REGS base=rdi
> > pushq %rdi
> > UNWIND_HINT_REGS indirect=1
> >
> > The problem is that it's changing the stack pointer *before* writing the
> > previous stack pointer (push %rdi). So when unwinding from an NMI which
> > hit between the rsp write and the rdi push, the unwinder tries to access
> > the regs on the previous stack (by reading rdi), but the previous stack
> > pointer isn't there yet, so the access is considered out of bounds.
>
> Ugh, that code. Does this problem go away with this patch applied:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/luto/linux.git/commit/?h=x86/entry_ist&id=2231ec7e0bcc1a2bc94a17081511ab54cc6badd1
>
> If so, want to update the patch for new kernels (shouldn't conflict
> with anything except your unwind hints)?

I don't think that patch will fix it, because it still updates rsp
*before* writing the old rsp on the new stack. So there's still a
window where the "previous stack" pointer is missing.

--
Josh

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