On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 10:25 AM, Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 06:23:40PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> From: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
>>
>> When we start using an entry trampoline, a #GP from userspace will
>> be delivered on the entry stack, not on the task stack.  Fix the
>> espfix64 #DF fixup to set up #GP according to TSS.SP0, rather than
>> assuming that pt_regs + 1 == SP0.  This won't change anything
>> without an entry stack, but it will make the code continue to work
>> when an entry stack is added.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
>> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
>> Link: 
>> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b1ef4136616c6bd2a75d1fd2736d1d54437d65a8.1511497875.git.l...@kernel.org
>> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
>> ---
>>  arch/x86/kernel/traps.c | 5 +++--
>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
>> index 2008dd0f8ccb..1bd43f044c62 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
>> @@ -359,7 +359,8 @@ dotraplinkage void do_double_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, 
>> long error_code)
>>               regs->cs == __KERNEL_CS &&
>>               regs->ip == (unsigned long)native_irq_return_iret)
>>       {
>> -             struct pt_regs *normal_regs = task_pt_regs(current);
>> +             struct pt_regs *normal_regs =
>> +                     (struct pt_regs *)this_cpu_read(cpu_tss.x86_tss.sp0) - 
>> 1;
>
> Just let that line stick out. Also, you can shorten it by renaming
> normal_regs to something much shorter - it is a local variable and the
> comment already explains everything you you can just as well have:
>
>          struct pt_regs *r = (struct pt_regs 
> *)this_cpu_read(cpu_tss.x86_tss.sp0) - 1;
>

Done, along with much better comments.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/luto/linux.git/commit/?h=x86/entry_stack&id=6510485d026abdd144d170b1bc8508327acb5648

> --
> Regards/Gruss,
>     Boris.
>
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