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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c | 28 |
5 files changed, 48 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S b/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S index a821b1cd4fa7..72bf2680f819 100644 --- a/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S +++ b/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S @@ -427,6 +427,13 @@ sysretl_from_sys_call: * cs and ss are loaded from MSRs. * (Note: 32bit->32bit SYSRET is different: since r11 * does not exist, it merely sets eflags.IF=1). + * + * NB: On AMD CPUs with the X86_BUG_SYSRET_SS_ATTRS bug, the ss + * descriptor is not reinitialized. This means that we must + * avoid SYSRET with SS == NULL, which could happen if we schedule, + * exit the kernel, and re-enter using an interrupt vector. (All + * interrupt entries on x86_64 set SS to NULL.) We prevent that + * from happening by reloading SS in __switch_to. */ USERGS_SYSRET32 diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h index 7ee9b94d9921..3d6606fb97d0 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h @@ -265,6 +265,7 @@ #define X86_BUG_11AP X86_BUG(5) /* Bad local APIC aka 11AP */ #define X86_BUG_FXSAVE_LEAK X86_BUG(6) /* FXSAVE leaks FOP/FIP/FOP */ #define X86_BUG_CLFLUSH_MONITOR X86_BUG(7) /* AAI65, CLFLUSH required before MONITOR */ +#define X86_BUG_SYSRET_SS_ATTRS X86_BUG(8) /* SYSRET doesn't fix up SS attrs */ #if defined(__KERNEL__) && !defined(__ASSEMBLY__) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c index fd470ebf924e..e4cf63301ff4 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c @@ -720,6 +720,9 @@ static void init_amd(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) if (!cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_3DNOWPREFETCH)) if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_3DNOW) || cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_LM)) set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_3DNOWPREFETCH); + + /* AMD CPUs don't reset SS attributes on SYSRET */ + set_cpu_bug(c, X86_BUG_SYSRET_SS_ATTRS); } #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S index c7b238494b31..02c2eff7478d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S @@ -295,6 +295,15 @@ system_call_fastpath: * rflags from r11 (but RF and VM bits are forced to 0), * cs and ss are loaded from MSRs. * Restoration of rflags re-enables interrupts. + * + * NB: On AMD CPUs with the X86_BUG_SYSRET_SS_ATTRS bug, the ss + * descriptor is not reinitialized. This means that we should + * avoid SYSRET with SS == NULL, which could happen if we schedule, + * exit the kernel, and re-enter using an interrupt vector. (All + * interrupt entries on x86_64 set SS to NULL.) We prevent that + * from happening by reloading SS in __switch_to. (Actually + * detecting the failure in 64-bit userspace is tricky but can be + * done.) */ USERGS_SYSRET64 diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c index 4baaa972f52a..ddfdbf74f174 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c @@ -419,6 +419,34 @@ __switch_to(struct task_struct *prev_p, struct task_struct *next_p) task_thread_info(prev_p)->flags & _TIF_WORK_CTXSW_PREV)) __switch_to_xtra(prev_p, next_p, tss); + if (static_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_SYSRET_SS_ATTRS)) { + /* + * AMD CPUs have a misfeature: SYSRET sets the SS selector but + * does not update the cached descriptor. As a result, if we + * do SYSRET while SS is NULL, we'll end up in user mode with + * SS apparently equal to __USER_DS but actually unusable. + * + * The straightforward workaround would be to fix it up just + * before SYSRET, but that would slow down the system call + * fast paths. Instead, we ensure that SS is never NULL in + * system call context. We do this by replacing NULL SS + * selectors at every context switch. SYSCALL sets up a valid + * SS, so the only way to get NULL is to re-enter the kernel + * from CPL 3 through an interrupt. Since that can't happen + * in the same task as a running syscall, we are guaranteed to + * context switch between every interrupt vector entry and a + * subsequent SYSRET. + * + * We read SS first because SS reads are much faster than + * writes. Out of caution, we force SS to __KERNEL_DS even if + * it previously had a different non-NULL value. + */ + unsigned short ss_sel; + savesegment(ss, ss_sel); + if (ss_sel != __KERNEL_DS) + loadsegment(ss, __KERNEL_DS); + } + return prev_p; } |