From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: perf_fuzzer compiled for x32 causes reboot
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 08:15:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5310B60F.30806@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140228154026.GH9987@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
On 02/28/2014 07:40 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 07:13:06AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> If I'm reading this right we end up going from the page fault
>> tracepoint to copy_from_user_nmi() without going through NMI, and the
>> cr2 corruption is obvious. I guess the assumption that only the NMI
>> path needed to save cr2 is flawed?
>
> It was never assumed it would only go through NMI, but that it would be
> NMI safe -- and as it turns out, it is that.
>
> What I did assume was that any other callsites would be safe, seeing how
> they'd already be running in 'normal' contexts.
>
> I had not considered people putting tracepoints _that_ early in the
> exception paths.
>
> Note that there's more tracepoints there than the one mentioned.
>
Well, I was talking about the assumption spelled out in the comment
above copy_from_user_nmi() which pretty much states "cr2 is safe because
cr2 is saved/restored in the NMI wrappers."
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-28 16:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 115+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-21 20:25 perf_fuzzer causes reboot Vince Weaver
2014-02-21 22:13 ` perf_fuzzer compiled for x32 " Vince Weaver
2014-02-21 22:34 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-22 4:50 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-22 5:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-22 6:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-23 5:18 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-23 5:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-23 6:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-23 14:05 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-24 3:02 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-24 5:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-24 15:35 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-24 16:34 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-24 16:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-24 17:10 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-24 17:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-24 17:32 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-24 17:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-24 18:00 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-24 18:07 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-24 18:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-24 19:13 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-24 19:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-24 19:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-24 19:32 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-25 3:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-25 14:07 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-25 14:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-25 14:43 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-25 15:33 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-26 15:06 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-27 22:06 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-27 22:31 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-27 22:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-27 23:30 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-27 23:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-28 1:00 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-28 20:34 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-02-28 20:47 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-28 20:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-28 21:17 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-02-28 21:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-28 21:51 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-02-28 21:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-28 22:05 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-28 22:23 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-02-28 1:34 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-28 2:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-28 2:57 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-28 11:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-28 13:37 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-28 14:15 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-28 14:23 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-28 15:07 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-28 15:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-28 15:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-28 16:15 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2014-02-28 16:29 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-28 19:33 ` [PATCH] x86: Rename copy_from_user_nmi() to copy_from_user_trace() Steven Rostedt
2014-02-28 20:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-28 20:51 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-28 20:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-28 21:01 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-28 21:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-28 20:56 ` perf_fuzzer compiled for x32 causes reboot Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-28 21:06 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-03-01 9:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2014-03-01 9:50 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-03-01 16:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-03-04 23:05 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-03-03 9:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-28 20:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-28 15:20 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-28 15:30 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-28 20:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-28 20:46 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-28 21:18 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-28 21:30 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-28 23:34 ` Vince Weaver
2014-03-01 0:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-03-01 3:36 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-03-01 16:24 ` Andi Kleen
2014-03-02 15:34 ` Vince Weaver
2014-03-02 16:02 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-28 9:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-24 17:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-24 17:41 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-24 17:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-24 17:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-02-28 15:33 [PATCH] x86 trace: Fix page fault tracing bug Jiri Olsa
2014-02-28 15:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-28 16:05 ` [PATCHv2] " Jiri Olsa
2014-02-28 16:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-28 16:23 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-28 16:15 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-03-05 0:03 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86, trace: Fix CR2 corruption when tracing page faults tip-bot for Jiri Olsa
2014-03-05 11:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-05 12:20 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-03-05 12:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-05 12:33 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-03-05 12:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-05 13:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-05 13:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-05 12:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-05 13:00 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-03-05 13:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-05 21:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-03-06 8:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-06 11:02 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-03-06 14:53 ` [PATCH] x86: Further robustify CR2 handling vs tracing Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-07 23:07 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86, trace: " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-28 15:47 ` [PATCH] x86 trace: Fix page fault tracing bug Jiri Olsa
2014-02-28 16:00 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-28 16:01 ` Steven Rostedt
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