linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/16] x86/entry/32: Leave the kernel via the trampoline stack

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Message-ID: <20180117092442.GJ28161@8bytes.org>
Date:   Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:24:42 +0100
From:   Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
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        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
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        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
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        Kees Cook <keescook@...gle.com>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Waiman Long <llong@...hat.com>, Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/16] x86/entry/32: Leave the kernel via the trampoline
 stack

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 02:48:43PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 8:36 AM, Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org> wrote:
> > +       /* Restore user %edi and user %fs */
> > +       movl (%edi), %edi
> > +       popl %fs
> 
> Yikes!  We're not *supposed* to be able to observe an asynchronous
> descriptor table change, but if the LDT changes out from under you,
> this is going to blow up badly.  It would be really nice if you could
> pull this off without percpu access or without needing to do this
> dance where you load user FS, then kernel FS, then user FS.  If that's
> not doable, then you should at least add exception handling -- look at
> the other 'pop %fs' instructions in entry_32.S.

You are right! This also means I need to do the 'popl %fs' before the
cr3-switch. I'll fix it in the next version.

I have no real idea on how to switch back to the entry stack without
access to per_cpu variables. I also can't access the cpu_entry_area for
the cpu yet, because for that we need to be on the entry stack already.


	Joerg