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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, chris2553@googlemail.com
Subject: [PATCH master/3.5.y] KVM: VMX: Fix ds/es corruption on i386 with preemption
Date: Wed,  1 Aug 2012 16:48:03 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1343828883-1968-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> (raw)

Commit b2da15ac26a0c ("KVM: VMX: Optimize %ds, %es reload") broke i386
in the following scenario:

  vcpu_load
  ...
  vmx_save_host_state
  vmx_vcpu_run
  (ds.rpl, es.rpl cleared by hardware)

  interrupt
    push ds, es  # pushes bad ds, es
    schedule
      vmx_vcpu_put
        vmx_load_host_state
          reload ds, es (with __USER_DS)
    pop ds, es  # of other thread's stack
    iret
  # other thread runs
  interrupt
    push ds, es
    schedule  # back in vcpu thread
    pop ds, es  # now with rpl=0
    iret
  ...
  vcpu_put
  resume_userspace
  iret  # clears ds, es due to mismatched rpl

(instead of resume_userspace, we might return with SYSEXIT and then
take an exception; when the exception IRETs we end up with cleared
ds, es)

Fix by avoiding the optimization on i386 and reloading ds, es on the
lightweight exit path.

Reported-by: Chris Clayron <chris2553@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 20 +++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index c39b607..c00f03d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -1488,13 +1488,6 @@ static void __vmx_load_host_state(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)
 		loadsegment(ds, vmx->host_state.ds_sel);
 		loadsegment(es, vmx->host_state.es_sel);
 	}
-#else
-	/*
-	 * The sysexit path does not restore ds/es, so we must set them to
-	 * a reasonable value ourselves.
-	 */
-	loadsegment(ds, __USER_DS);
-	loadsegment(es, __USER_DS);
 #endif
 	reload_tss();
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
@@ -6370,6 +6363,19 @@ static void __noclone vmx_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 #endif
 	      );
 
+#ifndef CONFIG_X86_64
+	/*
+	 * The sysexit path does not restore ds/es, so we must set them to
+	 * a reasonable value ourselves.
+	 *
+	 * We can't defer this to vmx_load_host_state() since that function
+	 * may be executed in interrupt context, which saves and restore segments
+	 * around it, nullifying its effect.
+	 */
+	loadsegment(ds, __USER_DS);
+	loadsegment(es, __USER_DS);
+#endif
+
 	vcpu->arch.regs_avail = ~((1 << VCPU_REGS_RIP) | (1 << VCPU_REGS_RSP)
 				  | (1 << VCPU_EXREG_RFLAGS)
 				  | (1 << VCPU_EXREG_CPL)
-- 
1.7.11.3


             reply	other threads:[~2012-08-01 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-01 13:48 Avi Kivity [this message]
2012-08-01 14:36 ` [PATCH master/3.5.y] KVM: VMX: Fix ds/es corruption on i386 with preemption Chris Clayton
2012-08-07  7:09   ` Fwd: " Chris Clayton

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