linux-kernel - Re: [regression] x86/signal/64: Fix SS handling for signals delivered to 64-bit programs breaks dosemu

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Date:	Fri, 14 Aug 2015 01:51:37 +0300
From:	Stas Sergeev <stsp@...t.ru>
To:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Raymond Jennings <shentino@...il.com>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	Linux kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [regression] x86/signal/64: Fix SS handling for signals delivered
 to 64-bit programs breaks dosemu

14.08.2015 01:29, Andy Lutomirski пишет:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Stas Sergeev <stsp@...t.ru> wrote:
>> 14.08.2015 01:11, Andy Lutomirski пишет:
>>
>>> Now suppose you set some magic flag and jump (via sigreturn,
>>> trampoline, whatever) into DOS code.  The DOS code loads 0x7 into FS
>>> and then gets #GP.  You land in a signal handler.  As far as the
>>> kernel's concerned, the FS base register is whatever the base of LDT
>>> entry 0 is.  What else is the kernel supposed to shove in there?
>> The same as what happens when you do in userspace:
>> ---
>> asm ("mov $0,%%fs\n");
>> prctl(ARCH_SET_FS, my_tls_base);
>> ---
>>
>> This was the trick I did before gcc started to use FS in prolog,
>> now I have to do this in asm.
>> But how simpler for the kernel is to do the same?
>>
>>> I think that making this work fully in the kernel would require a
>>> full-blown FS equivalent of sigaltstack, and that seems like overkill.
>> Setting selector and base is what you call an "equivalent of sigaltstack"?
> Yes.  sigaltstack says "hey, kernel! here's my SP for signal
> handling."  I think we'd need something similar to tell the kernel
> what my_tls_base is.  Using the most recent thing passed to
> ARCH_SET_FS is no good because WRFSBASE systems might not use
> ARCH_SET_FS, and we can't break DOSEMU on Ivy Bridge and newer as soon
> as we enable WRFSBASE.
If someone uses WRFSBASE and wants things to be preserved
in a sighandler, he'll just not set the aforementioned flag. No regression.
Whoever wants to use that flag properly, will not use WRFSBASE,
and will use ARCH_SET_FS or set_thread_area().
What exactly breakage do you have in mind?
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