* FAILED: patch "[PATCH] x86/traps: Ignore high word of regs->cs in" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree
@ 2016-11-29 15:21 gregkh
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From: gregkh @ 2016-11-29 15:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: luto, bp, brgerst, dvlasenk, hpa, jpoimboe, mingo, peterz,
tedheadster, tglx, torvalds
Cc: stable
The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>From fc0e81b2bea0ebceb71889b61d2240856141c9ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 18:42:40 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] x86/traps: Ignore high word of regs->cs in
early_fixup_exception()
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.
[ Note to stable maintainers: This patch is needed all the way back to 3.4,
but it will only apply to 4.6 and up, as it depends on commit:
0e861fbb5bda ("x86/head: Move early exception panic code into early_fixup_exception()")
If you want to backport to kernels before 4.6, please don't backport the
prerequisites (there was a big chain of them that rewrote a lot of the
early exception machinery); instead, ask me and I can send you a one-liner
that will apply. ]
Reported-by: Matthew Whitehead <tedheadster@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
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: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 4c5023a3fa2e ("x86-32: Handle exception table entries during early boot")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cb32c69920e58a1a58e7b5cad975038a69c0ce7d.1479609510.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/extable.c b/arch/x86/mm/extable.c
index 79ae939970d3..fcd06f7526de 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/extable.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/extable.c
@@ -135,7 +135,12 @@ void __init early_fixup_exception(struct pt_regs *regs, int trapnr)
if (early_recursion_flag > 2)
goto halt_loop;
- if (regs->cs != __KERNEL_CS)
+ /*
+ * Old CPUs leave the high bits of CS on the stack
+ * undefined. I'm not sure which CPUs do this, but at least
+ * the 486 DX works this way.
+ */
+ if ((regs->cs & 0xFFFF) != __KERNEL_CS)
goto fail;
/*
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