From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753685AbdBOXKE (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Feb 2017 18:10:04 -0500 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:53697 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753222AbdBOXKB (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Feb 2017 18:10:01 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , "Andy Lutomirski" , stable@vger.kernel.org, "Matthew Whitehead" Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 22:41:40 +0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.16 256/306] x86/traps: Ignore high word of regs->cs in early_fixup_exception() In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2a02:8011:400e:2:6f00:88c8:c921:d332 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.16.40-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Andy Lutomirski 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. [ This backport should apply to kernels from 3.4 - 4.5. ] Fixes: 4c5023a3fa2e ("x86-32: Handle exception table entries during early boot") Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Matthew Whitehead Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S @@ -564,7 +564,7 @@ early_idt_handler_common: movl %eax,%ds movl %eax,%es - cmpl $(__KERNEL_CS),32(%esp) + cmpw $(__KERNEL_CS),32(%esp) jne 10f leal 28(%esp),%eax # Pointer to %eip