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Date:	Wed, 13 Apr 2016 04:45:19 -0700
From:	tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski <tipbot@...or.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
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	tglx@...utronix.de, kvm@...r.kernel.org, Xen-devel@...ts.xen.org,
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	boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com
Subject: [tip:x86/asm] x86/msr: Carry on after a non-"safe" MSR access fails

Commit-ID:  fbd704374d111bed16a19261176fa30e2379c87c
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/fbd704374d111bed16a19261176fa30e2379c87c
Author:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
AuthorDate: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 07:01:37 -0700
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 11:37:45 +0200

x86/msr: Carry on after a non-"safe" MSR access fails

This demotes an OOPS and likely panic due to a failed non-"safe" MSR
access to a WARN_ONCE() and, for RDMSR, a return value of zero.

To be clear, this type of failure should *not* happen.  This patch
exists to minimize the chance of nasty undebuggable failures
happening when a CONFIG_PARAVIRT=y bug in the non-"safe" MSR helpers
gets fixed.

Tested-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: KVM list <kvm@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: xen-devel <Xen-devel@...ts.xen.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/26567b216aae70e795938f4b567eace5a0eb90ba.1459605520.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h | 10 ++++++++--
 arch/x86/mm/extable.c      | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h
index 7a79ee2..25f169c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h
@@ -84,7 +84,10 @@ static inline unsigned long long native_read_msr(unsigned int msr)
 {
 	DECLARE_ARGS(val, low, high);
 
-	asm volatile("rdmsr" : EAX_EDX_RET(val, low, high) : "c" (msr));
+	asm volatile("1: rdmsr\n"
+		     "2:\n"
+		     _ASM_EXTABLE_HANDLE(1b, 2b, ex_handler_rdmsr_unsafe)
+		     : EAX_EDX_RET(val, low, high) : "c" (msr));
 	if (msr_tracepoint_active(__tracepoint_read_msr))
 		do_trace_read_msr(msr, EAX_EDX_VAL(val, low, high), 0);
 	return EAX_EDX_VAL(val, low, high);
@@ -111,7 +114,10 @@ static inline unsigned long long native_read_msr_safe(unsigned int msr,
 static inline void native_write_msr(unsigned int msr,
 				    unsigned low, unsigned high)
 {
-	asm volatile("wrmsr" : : "c" (msr), "a"(low), "d" (high) : "memory");
+	asm volatile("1: wrmsr\n"
+		     "2:\n"
+		     _ASM_EXTABLE_HANDLE(1b, 2b, ex_handler_wrmsr_unsafe)
+		     : : "c" (msr), "a"(low), "d" (high) : "memory");
 	if (msr_tracepoint_active(__tracepoint_read_msr))
 		do_trace_write_msr(msr, ((u64)high << 32 | low), 0);
 }
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/extable.c b/arch/x86/mm/extable.c
index 061a237..fd9eb98 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/extable.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/extable.c
@@ -43,6 +43,33 @@ bool ex_handler_ext(const struct exception_table_entry *fixup,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(ex_handler_ext);
 
+bool ex_handler_rdmsr_unsafe(const struct exception_table_entry *fixup,
+			     struct pt_regs *regs, int trapnr)
+{
+	WARN_ONCE(1, "unchecked MSR access error: RDMSR from 0x%x\n",
+		  (unsigned int)regs->cx);
+
+	/* Pretend that the read succeeded and returned 0. */
+	regs->ip = ex_fixup_addr(fixup);
+	regs->ax = 0;
+	regs->dx = 0;
+	return true;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ex_handler_rdmsr_unsafe);
+
+bool ex_handler_wrmsr_unsafe(const struct exception_table_entry *fixup,
+			     struct pt_regs *regs, int trapnr)
+{
+	WARN_ONCE(1, "unchecked MSR access error: WRMSR to 0x%x (tried to write 0x%08x%08x)\n",
+		  (unsigned int)regs->cx,
+		  (unsigned int)regs->dx, (unsigned int)regs->ax);
+
+	/* Pretend that the write succeeded. */
+	regs->ip = ex_fixup_addr(fixup);
+	return true;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ex_handler_wrmsr_unsafe);
+
 bool ex_has_fault_handler(unsigned long ip)
 {
 	const struct exception_table_entry *e;