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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: tglx@linutronix.de, bp@alien8.de, mingo@kernel.org,
	rostedt@goodmis.org, luto@kernel.org,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: hpa@zytor.com, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, jgross@suse.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zhe.he@windriver.com,
	joel@joelfernandes.org, devel@etsukata.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86/mm, tracing: Fix CR2 corruption
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2019 22:22:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190703202231.GI16275@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190703102807.588906400@infradead.org>

On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 12:27:34PM +0200, root wrote:
> Despire the current efforts to read CR2 before tracing happens there
> still exist a number of possible holes:
> 
>   idtentry page_fault             do_page_fault           has_error_code=1
>     call error_entry
>       TRACE_IRQS_OFF
>         call trace_hardirqs_off*
>           #PF // modifies CR2
> 
>       CALL_enter_from_user_mode
>         __context_tracking_exit()
>           trace_user_exit(0)
>             #PF // modifies CR2
> 
>     call do_page_fault
>       address = read_cr2(); /* whoopsie */
> 
> And similar for i386.
> 
> Fix it by pulling the CR2 read into the entry code, before any of that
> stuff gets a chance to run and ruin things.
> 
> Ideally we'll clean up the entry code by moving this tracing and
> context tracking nonsense into C some day, but let's not delay fixing
> this longer.
> 

> @@ -1180,10 +1189,10 @@ idtentry xenint3		do_int3			has_error_co
>  #endif
>  
>  idtentry general_protection	do_general_protection	has_error_code=1
> -idtentry page_fault		do_page_fault		has_error_code=1
> +idtentry page_fault		do_page_fault		has_error_code=1	read_cr2=1
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_KVM_GUEST
> -idtentry async_page_fault	do_async_page_fault	has_error_code=1
> +idtentry async_page_fault	do_async_page_fault	has_error_code=1	read_cr2=1
>  #endif

While going over the various idt handlers, I found that we probably also
need read_cr2 on do_double_fault(), otherwise it is susceptible to the
same problem.



  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-03 20:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-03 10:27 [PATCH 0/3] tracing vs CR2 root
2019-07-03 10:27 ` [PATCH 1/3] x86/paravirt: Make read_cr2() CALLEE_SAVE root
2019-07-03 14:12   ` Juergen Gross
2019-07-03 10:27 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86/entry/32: Simplify common_exception root
2019-07-03 10:27 ` [PATCH 3/3] x86/mm, tracing: Fix CR2 corruption root
2019-07-03 20:22   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2019-07-03 20:29     ` Steven Rostedt
2019-07-03 21:51       ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-07-03 20:27   ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-07-03 20:47     ` Steven Rostedt
2019-07-03 22:05       ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-07-04  9:19         ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-07-03 22:00     ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-07-03 22:26       ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-07-04  9:13       ` Peter Zijlstra

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