Re: [RFC v2] x86-64: Allow emulated vsyscalls from user addresses

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 08:45:52AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
> > index 9682ec5..6ae5e3a 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
> > @@ -873,9 +873,17 @@ void __init trap_init(void)
> >  #endif
> >  
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
> > -	BUG_ON(test_bit(VSYSCALL_EMU_VECTOR, used_vectors));
> > -	set_system_intr_gate(VSYSCALL_EMU_VECTOR, &emulate_vsyscall);
> > -	set_bit(VSYSCALL_EMU_VECTOR, used_vectors);
> > +	BUG_ON(test_bit(VSYSCALL0_EMU_VECTOR, used_vectors));
> > +	set_system_intr_gate(VSYSCALL0_EMU_VECTOR, &emulate_vsyscall0);
> > +	set_bit(VSYSCALL0_EMU_VECTOR, used_vectors);
> > +
> > +	BUG_ON(test_bit(VSYSCALL1_EMU_VECTOR, used_vectors));
> > +	set_system_intr_gate(VSYSCALL1_EMU_VECTOR, &emulate_vsyscall1);
> > +	set_bit(VSYSCALL1_EMU_VECTOR, used_vectors);
> > +
> > +	BUG_ON(test_bit(VSYSCALL2_EMU_VECTOR, used_vectors));
> > +	set_system_intr_gate(VSYSCALL2_EMU_VECTOR, &emulate_vsyscall2);
> > +	set_bit(VSYSCALL2_EMU_VECTOR, used_vectors);
> >  #endif

..

> Surprisingly, this looks a bit cleaner to me than the original code,
> as the emulated syscalls separate out so nicely.
>
> The flip side is using up more of our vector space - but realistically
> we could put all this code behind a default-off LEGACY_VSYSCALL switch
> a year or two down the line, when distros have ugpraded glibc.

This probably needs an entry in <Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt>.

Also, what do we do with userspace which decides to hardcode "int 0x4[012]"
somewhere in the meantime?

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.