Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86/stackframe/32: repair 32-bit Xen PV | From | Jürgen Groß <> | Date | Fri, 25 Oct 2019 08:09:00 +0200 |
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On 25.10.19 08:06, Jan Beulich wrote: > On 24.10.2019 18:11, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 3:41 AM Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> wrote: >>> >>> Once again RPL checks have been introduced which don't account for a >>> 32-bit kernel living in ring 1 when running in a PV Xen domain. The >>> case in FIXUP_FRAME has been preventing boot; adjust BUG_IF_WRONG_CR3 >>> as well just in case. >> >> I'm okay with the generated code, but IMO the macro is too indirect >> for something that's trivial. >> >>> >>> Fixes: 3c88c692c287 ("x86/stackframe/32: Provide consistent pt_regs") >>> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> >>> >>> --- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S >>> +++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S >>> @@ -48,6 +48,17 @@ >>> >>> #include "calling.h" >>> >>> +#ifndef CONFIG_XEN_PV >>> +# define USER_SEGMENT_RPL_MASK SEGMENT_RPL_MASK >>> +#else >>> +/* >>> + * When running paravirtualized on Xen the kernel runs in ring 1, and hence >>> + * simple mask based tests (i.e. ones not comparing against USER_RPL) have to >>> + * ignore bit 0. See also the C-level get_kernel_rpl(). >>> + */ >> >> How about: >> >> /* >> * When running on Xen PV, the actual %cs register in the kernel is 1, not 0. >> * If we need to distinguish between a %cs from kernel mode and a %cs from >> * user mode, we can do test $2 instead of test $3. >> */ >> #define USER_SEGMENT_RPL_MASK 2 > > I.e. you're fine using just the single bit in all configurations? > >>> +# define USER_SEGMENT_RPL_MASK (SEGMENT_RPL_MASK & ~1) >>> +#endif >>> + >>> .section .entry.text, "ax" >>> >>> /* >>> @@ -172,7 +183,7 @@ >>> ALTERNATIVE "jmp .Lend_\@", "", X86_FEATURE_PTI >>> .if \no_user_check == 0 >>> /* coming from usermode? */ >>> - testl $SEGMENT_RPL_MASK, PT_CS(%esp) >>> + testl $USER_SEGMENT_RPL_MASK, PT_CS(%esp) >> >> Shouldn't PT_CS(%esp) be 0 if we came from the kernel? I'm guessing >> the actual bug is in whatever code put 1 in here in the first place. >> >> In other words, I'm having trouble understanding why there is any >> context in which some value would be 3 for user mode and 1 for kernel >> mode. Obviously if we're manually IRETing to kernel mode, we need to >> set CS to 1, but if we're filling in our own PT_CS, we should just >> write 0. >> >> The supposedly offending commit (""x86/stackframe/32: Provide >> consistent pt_regs") looks correct to me, so I suspect that the >> problem is elsewhere. Or is it intentional that Xen PV's asm >> (arch/x86/xen/whatever) sticks 1 into the CS field on the stack? > > Manually created / updated frames _could_ in principle modify the > RPL, but ones coming from hardware (old 32-bit hypervisors) or Xen > (64-bit hypervisors) will have an RPL of 1, as already said by > Andrew. We could in principle also add a VM assist for the > hypervisor to store an RPL of 0, but I'd expect this to require > further kernel changes, and together with the old behavior still > being required to support I'm unconvinced this would be worth it. > >> Also, why are we supporting 32-bit Linux PV guests at all? Can we >> just delete this code instead? > > This was already suggested by Jürgen (now also CC-ed), but in reply > it was pointed out that the process would be to first deprecate the > code, and remove it only a couple of releases later if no-one comes > up with a reason to retain it.
Thanks for the reminder.
I'll send a patch with the deprecation warning for 32-bit PV.
Juergen
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