From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Subject: Re: Current mainline git (24e700e291d52bd2) hangs when building e.g. perf
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 11:08:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1505142497.21121.36.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrU5iZo5_7+cn=NLYws2r8nvu7huxBQOJcMvanGKsFs7+A@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, 2017-09-10 at 18:46 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
> No, nothing stops the problematic speculative load. Here's the
> issue.
> One CPU removes a reference to a page table from a higher-level page
> table, flushes, and then frees the page table. Then it re-allocates
> it and writes something unrelated there. Another CPU that has CR3
> pointing to the page hierarchy in question could have a reference to
> the freed table in its paging structure cache. Even if it's
> guaranteed to not try to access the addresses in question (because
> they're user addresses and the other CPU is in kernel mode, etc), but
> there is never a guarantee that the CPU doesn't randomly try to fill
> its TLB for the affected addresses. This results in invalid PTEs in
> the TLB, possible accesses using bogus memory types, and maybe even
> reads from IO space.
Good point, I had forgotten all about memory accesses
that do not originate with software behavior.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-11 15:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-05 7:27 Current mainline git (24e700e291d52bd2) hangs when building e.g. perf Markus Trippelsdorf
2017-09-05 8:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-09-05 9:55 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2017-09-06 12:52 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-09-06 13:15 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2017-09-07 6:28 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2017-09-08 5:35 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2017-09-08 6:26 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-09-08 8:05 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-09-08 9:16 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-09-08 9:48 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2017-09-08 10:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-09-08 10:39 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2017-09-08 11:30 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2017-09-08 16:12 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-09-08 17:16 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2017-09-08 21:47 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-09-08 21:56 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-09-08 23:07 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-09-08 23:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-09-09 0:00 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-09-09 1:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-09-09 1:39 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-09-09 17:49 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-09-09 18:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-09-09 6:39 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2017-09-09 10:18 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-09-09 11:07 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2017-09-09 13:07 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-09-09 13:37 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2017-09-09 13:39 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2017-09-09 14:07 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-09-09 14:20 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2017-09-09 14:33 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-09-09 14:43 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2017-09-09 16:32 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2017-09-09 17:05 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-09-09 17:23 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2017-09-09 17:36 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-09-09 18:14 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2017-09-09 18:26 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-09-09 18:46 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2017-09-09 19:11 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-09-09 19:19 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-09-09 18:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-09-09 18:29 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-09-09 18:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-09-09 19:09 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-09-09 19:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-09-09 19:28 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-09-09 19:37 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-09-10 4:42 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-09-10 20:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-09-10 20:25 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-09-17 17:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-09-11 1:12 ` Rik van Riel
2017-09-11 1:46 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-09-11 15:08 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2017-09-12 7:14 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2017-09-09 8:13 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2017-09-08 14:51 ` Borislav Petkov
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