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authorGravatar H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com> 2023-12-05 02:50:09 -0800
committerGravatar Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> 2024-01-31 22:02:00 +0100
commitad41a14cc2d66229479d73e4a7dc1fda26827666 (patch)
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parentx86/fred: No ESPFIX needed when FRED is enabled (diff)
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x86/fred: Allow single-step trap and NMI when starting a new task
Entering a new task is logically speaking a return from a system call (exec, fork, clone, etc.). As such, if ptrace enables single stepping a single step exception should be allowed to trigger immediately upon entering user space. This is not optional. NMI should *never* be disabled in user space. As such, this is an optional, opportunistic way to catch errors. Allow single-step trap and NMI when starting a new task, thus once the new task enters user space, single-step trap and NMI are both enabled immediately. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Xin Li <xin3.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Tested-by: Shan Kang <shan.kang@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231205105030.8698-21-xin3.li@intel.com
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c38
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
index 4f87f5987ae8..c075591b7b46 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@
#include <asm/resctrl.h>
#include <asm/unistd.h>
#include <asm/fsgsbase.h>
+#include <asm/fred.h>
#ifdef CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION
/* Not included via unistd.h */
#include <asm/unistd_32_ia32.h>
@@ -528,7 +529,7 @@ void x86_gsbase_write_task(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long gsbase)
static void
start_thread_common(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long new_ip,
unsigned long new_sp,
- unsigned int _cs, unsigned int _ss, unsigned int _ds)
+ u16 _cs, u16 _ss, u16 _ds)
{
WARN_ON_ONCE(regs != current_pt_regs());
@@ -545,11 +546,36 @@ start_thread_common(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long new_ip,
loadsegment(ds, _ds);
load_gs_index(0);
- regs->ip = new_ip;
- regs->sp = new_sp;
- regs->cs = _cs;
- regs->ss = _ss;
- regs->flags = X86_EFLAGS_IF;
+ regs->ip = new_ip;
+ regs->sp = new_sp;
+ regs->csx = _cs;
+ regs->ssx = _ss;
+ /*
+ * Allow single-step trap and NMI when starting a new task, thus
+ * once the new task enters user space, single-step trap and NMI
+ * are both enabled immediately.
+ *
+ * Entering a new task is logically speaking a return from a
+ * system call (exec, fork, clone, etc.). As such, if ptrace
+ * enables single stepping a single step exception should be
+ * allowed to trigger immediately upon entering user space.
+ * This is not optional.
+ *
+ * NMI should *never* be disabled in user space. As such, this
+ * is an optional, opportunistic way to catch errors.
+ *
+ * Paranoia: High-order 48 bits above the lowest 16 bit SS are
+ * discarded by the legacy IRET instruction on all Intel, AMD,
+ * and Cyrix/Centaur/VIA CPUs, thus can be set unconditionally,
+ * even when FRED is not enabled. But we choose the safer side
+ * to use these bits only when FRED is enabled.
+ */
+ if (cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_FRED)) {
+ regs->fred_ss.swevent = true;
+ regs->fred_ss.nmi = true;
+ }
+
+ regs->flags = X86_EFLAGS_IF | X86_EFLAGS_FIXED;
}
void