Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [v2 6/7] x86/traps: Fixup general protection faults caused by UMIP | From | Ricardo Neri <> | Date | Tue, 27 Dec 2016 14:34:21 -0800 |
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On Fri, 2016-12-23 at 18:11 -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 5:37 PM, Ricardo Neri > <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com> wrote: > > If the User-Mode Instruction Prevention CPU feature is available and > > enabled, a general protection fault will be issued if the instructions > > sgdt, sldt, sidt, str or smsw are executed from user-mode context > > (CPL > 0). If the fault was caused by any of the instructions protected > > by UMIP, fixup_umip_exceptino will emulate dummy results for these > > instructions. > > > > Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> > > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> > > Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> > > Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> > > Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> > > Cc: Chen Yucong <slaoub@gmail.com> > > Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> > > Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> > > Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> > > Cc: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com> > > Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> > > Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> > > Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> > > Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> > > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> > > Cc: Ravi V. Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com> > > Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> > > Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> > > Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> > > Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> > > Cc: Liang Z. Li <liang.z.li@intel.com> > > Cc: Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org> > > Cc: Stas Sergeev <stsp@list.ru> > > Cc: x86@kernel.org > > Cc: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org > > Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com> > > --- > > arch/x86/kernel/traps.c | 4 ++++ > > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) > > > > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c > > index bf0c6d0..5044fb3 100644 > > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c > > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c > > @@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ > > #include <asm/trace/mpx.h> > > #include <asm/mpx.h> > > #include <asm/vm86.h> > > +#include <asm/umip.h> > > > > #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 > > #include <asm/x86_init.h> > > @@ -491,6 +492,9 @@ do_general_protection(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code) > > RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN(!rcu_is_watching(), "entry code didn't wake RCU"); > > cond_local_irq_enable(regs); > > > > + if (user_mode(regs) && !fixup_umip_exception(regs)) > > + return; > > + > > I would do fixup_umip_exception(regs) == 0 to make it more obvious > what's going on.
Sure. I will make this change. > > Also, since you're allowing this in v8086 mode, I think this should > have an explicit test in > tools/testing/selftests/x86/entry_from_vm86.c. I *think* it will work > fine, but the pt_regs handling in vm86 mode is quite scary and has > been rewritten recently.
I will include a test for this.
Thanks and BR, Ricardo
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