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From: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 18/27] x86/cet/shstk: Introduce WRUSS instruction
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 10:37:10 -0700
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On Fri, 2018-07-13 at 05:12 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 07/10/2018 03:26 PM, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
> > 
> > +static int is_wruss(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code)
> > +{
> > +	return (((error_code & (X86_PF_USER | X86_PF_SHSTK)) ==
> > +		(X86_PF_USER | X86_PF_SHSTK)) && !user_mode(regs));
> > +}
> > +
> >  static void
> >  show_fault_oops(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
> >  		unsigned long address)
> > @@ -848,7 +859,7 @@ __bad_area_nosemaphore(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
> >  	struct task_struct *tsk = current;
> >  
> >  	/* User mode accesses just cause a SIGSEGV */
> > -	if (error_code & X86_PF_USER) {
> > +	if ((error_code & X86_PF_USER) && !is_wruss(regs, error_code)) {
> >  		/*
> >  		 * It's possible to have interrupts off here:
> >  		 */
> Please don't do it this way.
> 
> We have two styles of page fault:
> 1. User page faults: find a VMA, try to handle (allocate memory et al.),
>    kill process if we can't handle.
> 2. Kernel page faults: search for a *discrete* set of conditions that
>    can be handled, including faults in instructions marked in exception
>    tables.
> 
> X86_PF_USER *means*: do user page fault handling.  In the places where
> the hardware doesn't set it, but we still want user page fault handling,
> we manually set it, like this where we "downgrade" an implicit
> supervisor access to a user access:
> 
>         if (user_mode(regs)) {
>                 local_irq_enable();
>                 error_code |= X86_PF_USER;
>                 flags |= FAULT_FLAG_USER;
> 
> So, just please *clear* X86_PF_USER if !user_mode(regs) and X86_PF_SS.
> We do not want user page fault handling, thus we should not keep the bit
> set.

Agree.  I will change that.

Yu-cheng