x86_64: Fix off-by-one error setting up the Interrupt Stack Tables

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>]

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This affects every version of Xen at least as back as 3.4

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Andrew Cooper - Dom0 Kernel Engineer, Citrix XenServer
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# HG changeset patch
# Parent 8f1e0cc4a507a52a49a2eb7832a57ecc7e032dce
x86_64: Fix off-by-one error setting up the Interrupt Stack Tables

The Interrupt Stack Table entries in a 64bit TSS are a 1 based data
structure as far as hardware is concerned.  As a result, the code
setting up stacks in subarch_percpu_traps_init() fills in the wrong IST
entries.

The result is that the MCE handler executes on the stack set up for
NMIs; the NMI handler executes on a stack set up for Double Faults, and
Double Faults are executed with a stack pointer set to 0.

Once the #DF handler starts to execute, it will usually take a page
fault looking up the address at 0xfffffffffffffff8, which will cause a
triple fault.  If a guest has mapped a page in that location, then it
will have some state overwritten, but as the #DF handler always calls
panic(), this is not a problem the guest will have time to care about.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>

diff -r 8f1e0cc4a507 xen/arch/x86/x86_64/traps.c
--- a/xen/arch/x86/x86_64/traps.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/x86_64/traps.c
@@ -386,13 +386,13 @@ void __devinit subarch_percpu_traps_init
     BUILD_BUG_ON((IST_MAX + 2) * PAGE_SIZE + PRIMARY_STACK_SIZE > STACK_SIZE);
 
     /* Machine Check handler has its own per-CPU 4kB stack. */
-    this_cpu(init_tss).ist[IST_MCE] = (unsigned long)&stack[IST_MCE * PAGE_SIZE];
+    this_cpu(init_tss).ist[IST_MCE-1] = (unsigned long)&stack[IST_MCE * PAGE_SIZE];
 
     /* Double-fault handler has its own per-CPU 4kB stack. */
-    this_cpu(init_tss).ist[IST_DF] = (unsigned long)&stack[IST_DF * PAGE_SIZE];
+    this_cpu(init_tss).ist[IST_DF-1] = (unsigned long)&stack[IST_DF * PAGE_SIZE];
 
     /* NMI handler has its own per-CPU 4kB stack. */
-    this_cpu(init_tss).ist[IST_NMI] = (unsigned long)&stack[IST_NMI * PAGE_SIZE];
+    this_cpu(init_tss).ist[IST_NMI-1] = (unsigned long)&stack[IST_NMI * PAGE_SIZE];
 
     /* Trampoline for SYSCALL entry from long mode. */
     stack = &stack[IST_MAX * PAGE_SIZE]; /* Skip the IST stacks. */
diff -r 8f1e0cc4a507 xen/include/asm-x86/processor.h
--- a/xen/include/asm-x86/processor.h
+++ b/xen/include/asm-x86/processor.h
@@ -424,7 +424,9 @@ struct tss_struct {
     union { u64 rsp1, esp1; };
     union { u64 rsp2, esp2; };
     u64 reserved1;
-    u64 ist[7];
+    u64 ist[7]; /* Interrupt Stack Table is 1-based so tss->ist[0]
+                 * corresponds to an IST value of 1 in an Interrupt
+                 * Descriptor */
     u64 reserved2;
     u16 reserved3;
 #else

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