Re: [PATCH v5 28/34] x86/fred: fixup fault on ERETU by jumping to fred_entrypoint_user

andrew.cooper3
2023-03-17T09:56:04Z

On 17/03/2023 9:39 am, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_FRED
>> +static bool ex_handler_eretu(const struct exception_table_entry *fixup,
>> + struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code)
>> +{
>> + struct pt_regs *uregs = (struct pt_regs *)(regs->sp - offsetof(struct pt_regs, ip));
>> + unsigned short ss = uregs->ss;
>> + unsigned short cs = uregs->cs;
>> +
>> + fred_info(uregs)->edata = fred_event_data(regs);
>> + uregs->ssx = regs->ssx;
>> + uregs->ss = ss;
>> + uregs->csx = regs->csx;
>> + uregs->current_stack_level = 0;
>> + uregs->cs = cs;
> Hello
>
> If the ERETU instruction had tried to return from NMI to ring3 and just faulted,
> is NMI still blocked?
>
> We know that IRET unconditionally enables NMI, but I can't find any clue in the
> FRED's manual.
>
> In the pseudocode of ERETU in the manual, it seems that NMI is only enabled when
> ERETU succeeds with bit28 in csx set. If so, this code will fail to reenable
> NMI if bit28 is not explicitly re-set in csx.

IRET clearing NMI blocking is the source of an immense amount of grief,
and ultimately the reason why Linux and others can't use supervisor
shadow stacks at the moment.

Changing this property, so NMIs only get unblocked on successful
execution of an ERET{S,U}, was a key demand of the FRED spec.

i.e. until you have successfully ERET*'d, you're still logically in the
NMI handler and NMIs need to remain blocked even when handling the #GP
from a bad ERET.

~Andrew