linux/arch/x86/entry
Andy Lutomirski f2b375756c x86/entry: Vastly simplify SYSENTER TF (single-step) handling
Due to a blatant design error, SYSENTER doesn't clear TF (single-step).

As a result, if a user does SYSENTER with TF set, we will single-step
through the kernel until something clears TF.  There is absolutely
nothing we can do to prevent this short of turning off SYSENTER [1].

Simplify the handling considerably with two changes:

  1. We already sanitize EFLAGS in SYSENTER to clear NT and AC.  We can
     add TF to that list of flags to sanitize with no overhead whatsoever.

  2. Teach do_debug() to ignore single-step traps in the SYSENTER prologue.

That's all we need to do.

Don't get too excited -- our handling is still buggy on 32-bit
kernels.  There's nothing wrong with the SYSENTER code itself, but
the #DB prologue has a clever fixup for traps on the very first
instruction of entry_SYSENTER_32, and the fixup doesn't work quite
correctly.  The next two patches will fix that.

[1] We could probably prevent it by forcing BTF on at all times and
    making sure we clear TF before any branches in the SYSENTER
    code.  Needless to say, this is a bad idea.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a30d2ea06fe4b621fe6a9ef911b02c0f38feb6f2.1457578375.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-03-10 09:48:13 +01:00
..
syscalls x86/syscalls/64: Mark sys_iopl() as using ptregs 2016-02-01 08:53:25 +01:00
vdso x86/vdso: Use static_cpu_has() 2016-01-30 11:22:23 +01:00
vsyscall x86/vdso: Disallow vvar access to vclock IO for never-used vclocks 2016-01-12 11:59:35 +01:00
Makefile x86/entry: Move C entry and exit code to arch/x86/entry/common.c 2015-07-07 10:59:05 +02:00
calling.h x86/asm/entry: Remove unused SAVE_ALL/RESTORE_ALL macros for !CONFIG_x86_64 2016-01-19 08:24:03 +01:00
common.c x86/entry/compat: Keep TS_COMPAT set during signal delivery 2016-02-17 09:51:06 +01:00
entry_32.S x86/entry: Vastly simplify SYSENTER TF (single-step) handling 2016-03-10 09:48:13 +01:00
entry_64.S x86/entry/64: Fix fast-path syscall return register state 2016-02-01 08:53:25 +01:00
entry_64_compat.S x86/entry: Vastly simplify SYSENTER TF (single-step) handling 2016-03-10 09:48:13 +01:00
syscall_32.c x86/syscalls: Add syscall entry qualifiers 2016-01-29 09:46:38 +01:00
syscall_64.c x86/entry/64: Always run ptregs-using syscalls on the slow path 2016-01-29 09:46:38 +01:00
thunk_32.S Merge branch 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-06-22 17:59:09 -07:00
thunk_64.S Merge branch 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-06-22 17:59:09 -07:00