linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 256/306] x86/traps: Ignore high word of regs->cs in early_fixup

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Date:   Wed, 15 Feb 2017 22:41:40 +0000
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        "Andy Lutomirski" <luto@...nel.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        "Matthew Whitehead" <tedheadster@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 256/306] x86/traps: Ignore high word of regs->cs in
 early_fixup_exception()

3.16.40-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>

commit fc0e81b2bea0ebceb71889b61d2240856141c9ee upstream.

On the 80486 DX, it seems that some exceptions may leave garbage in
the high bits of CS.  This causes sporadic failures in which
early_fixup_exception() refuses to fix up an exception.

As far as I can tell, this has been buggy for a long time, but the
problem seems to have been exacerbated by commits:

  1e02ce4cccdc ("x86: Store a per-cpu shadow copy of CR4")
  e1bfc11c5a6f ("x86/init: Fix cr4_init_shadow() on CR4-less machines")

This appears to have broken for as long as we've had early
exception handling.

[ This backport should apply to kernels from 3.4 - 4.5. ]

Fixes: 4c5023a3fa2e ("x86-32: Handle exception table entries during early boot")
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Reported-by: Matthew Whitehead <tedheadster@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S
@@ -564,7 +564,7 @@ early_idt_handler_common:
 	movl %eax,%ds
 	movl %eax,%es
 
-	cmpl $(__KERNEL_CS),32(%esp)
+	cmpw $(__KERNEL_CS),32(%esp)
 	jne 10f
 
 	leal 28(%esp),%eax	# Pointer to %eip