linux-kernel - [patch V2 01/29] x86/irq/64: Limit IST stack overflow check to #DB stack

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Message-Id: <20190405150928.506129462@linutronix.de>
Date:   Fri, 05 Apr 2019 17:06:59 +0200
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>,
        Mitsuo Hayasaka <mitsuo.hayasaka.hu@...achi.com>
Subject: [patch V2 01/29] x86/irq/64: Limit IST stack overflow check to #DB
 stack

commit 37fe6a42b343 ("x86: Check stack overflow in detail") added a broad
check for the full exception stack area, i.e. it considers the full
exception stack area as valid.

That's wrong in two aspects:

 1) It does not check the individual areas one by one

 2) #DF, NMI and #MCE are not enabling interrupts which means that a
    regular device interrupt cannot happen in their context. In fact if a
    device interrupt hits one of those IST stacks that's a bug because some
    code path enabled interrupts while handling the exception.

Limit the check to the #DB stack and consider all other IST stacks as
'overflow' or invalid.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Mitsuo Hayasaka <mitsuo.hayasaka.hu@...achi.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/irq_64.c |   19 ++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/irq_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/irq_64.c
@@ -26,9 +26,18 @@ int sysctl_panic_on_stackoverflow;
 /*
  * Probabilistic stack overflow check:
  *
- * Only check the stack in process context, because everything else
- * runs on the big interrupt stacks. Checking reliably is too expensive,
- * so we just check from interrupts.
+ * Regular device interrupts can enter on the following stacks:
+ *
+ * - User stack
+ *
+ * - Kernel task stack
+ *
+ * - Interrupt stack if a device driver reenables interrupts
+ *   which should only happen in really old drivers.
+ *
+ * - Debug IST stack
+ *
+ * All other contexts are invalid.
  */
 static inline void stack_overflow_check(struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
@@ -53,8 +62,8 @@ static inline void stack_overflow_check(
 		return;
 
 	oist = this_cpu_ptr(&orig_ist);
-	estack_top = (u64)oist->ist[0] - EXCEPTION_STKSZ + STACK_TOP_MARGIN;
-	estack_bottom = (u64)oist->ist[N_EXCEPTION_STACKS - 1];
+	estack_bottom = (u64)oist->ist[DEBUG_STACK];
+	estack_top = estack_bottom - DEBUG_STKSZ + STACK_TOP_MARGIN;
 	if (regs->sp >= estack_top && regs->sp <= estack_bottom)
 		return;