Re: umip: AMD Ryzen 3900X, pagefault after emulate SLDT/SIDT instruction

[andi@notmuch.email]

On 11:56 19.05.20, Brendan Shanks wrote:
> The problem is that the kernel does not emulate/spoof the SLDT instruction, only SGDT, SIDT, and SMSW.
> SLDT and STR weren't thought to be commonly used, so emulation/spoofing wasn’t added.
> In the last few months I have seen reports of one or two (32-bit) Windows games that use SLDT though.
> Can you share more information about the application you’re running?

I'll try to create a very simple reproducer for this case in the next
days. Unfortunately I don't have the source of the original application.
I can mail you instructions about it directly, if required.

> Maybe the best path is to add kernel emulation/spoofing for SLDT and
> STR on 32 and 64-bit, just to cover all the cases. It should be a
> pretty simple patch, I’ll start working on it.

Check the other mail from Ricardo, you can probably safe that effort :-)

> Alternately, I did work on a Wine patch to emulate the UMIP
> instructions in user-space, but it adds a lot of code and I don’t
> think there’s much appetite for it in upstream Wine (especially since
> the kernel emulation is sufficient for almost all cases).
> https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2020-February/160027.html

Yeah that seems like the less favorable effort. My best guess is that
this might not be limited to Wine thus handling in the kernel might be
best.

> In the meantime, an easy way to disable UMIP without rebuilding the
> kernel is to pass 'clearcpuid=514’ on the kernel command line.

Nice, I'll use that next time :-)