4.8-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org>
commit fc0e81b2bea0ebceb71889b61d2240856141c9ee upstream.
On the 80486 DX, it seems that some exceptions may leave garbage in
the high bits of CS. This causes sporadic failures in which
early_fixup_exception() refuses to fix up an exception.
As far as I can tell, this has been buggy for a long time, but the
problem seems to have been exacerbated by commits:
1e02ce4cccdc ("x86: Store a per-cpu shadow copy of CR4")
e1bfc11c5a6f ("x86/init: Fix cr4_init_shadow() on CR4-less machines")
This appears to have broken for as long as we've had early
exception handling.
[ Note to stable maintainers: This patch is needed all the way back to 3.4,
but it will only apply to 4.6 and up, as it depends on commit:
0e861fbb5bda ("x86/head: Move early exception panic code into
early_fixup_exception()")
If you want to backport to kernels before 4.6, please don't backport the
prerequisites (there was a big chain of them that rewrote a lot of the
early exception machinery); instead, ask me and I can send you a one-liner
that will apply. ]
Reported-by: Matthew Whitehead <tedheads...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brge...@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlas...@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoim...@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 4c5023a3fa2e ("x86-32: Handle exception table entries during early boot")
Link:
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cb32c69920e58a1a58e7b5cad975038a69c0ce7d.1479609510.git.l...@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
arch/x86/mm/extable.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/x86/mm/extable.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/extable.c
@@ -135,7 +135,12 @@ void __init early_fixup_exception(struct
if (early_recursion_flag > 2)
goto halt_loop;
- if (regs->cs != __KERNEL_CS)
+ /*
+ * Old CPUs leave the high bits of CS on the stack
+ * undefined. I'm not sure which CPUs do this, but at least
+ * the 486 DX works this way.
+ */
+ if ((regs->cs & 0xFFFF) != __KERNEL_CS)
goto fail;
/*
