linux-kernel - Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/xen: Fix 32-bit PV guests's usage of kernel

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Message-ID: <5345695A.3020303@oracle.com>
Date:	Wed, 09 Apr 2014 11:38:02 -0400
From:	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
To:	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>
CC:	Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@...rix.com>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>,
	xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, srostedt@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/xen: Fix 32-bit PV guests's usage of
 kernel_stack

On 04/09/2014 11:01 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 09.04.14 at 16:41, <andrew.cooper3@...rix.com> wrote:
>> The latter load however can easy fault; The arguments for %ds in
>> XSA-42/ CVE-2013-0228 applies to %{e,f,g}s as well.
> And it was only that latter operation that I pointed at.

We don't seem to reference %fs after the pop so doing the fixup (as 
David suggested) should be enough?

-boris


>
>> Furthermore, I am a little concerned about the performance impact of
>> this.  I would have thought that in most cases, %fs will already be
>> correct, at which point reloading it twice is a waste of time.
> Why would you expect %fs on the IRET path to commonly point to the
> kernel segment rather than whatever user mode wants/needs? Also, I'm
> not sure adding conditionals here wouldn't harm performance about as
> much as the save/load/restore. If anything I'd look into open coding
> GET_THREAD_INFO() without using %fs for this single case.
>
> Jan
>
>
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