From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
x86@kernel.org, Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: add missing verify_cpu to 32bit wakeup
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2011 23:34:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110703213407.GA2687@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110703191522.GX32221@outflux.net>
On Sun 2011-07-03 12:15:22, Kees Cook wrote:
> Hi Pavel,
>
> On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 02:15:49PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > Some BIOSes will reset the Intel XD_DISABLE MSR bit when resuming from S3,
> > > which can interact poorly with ebba638ae723d8a8fc2f7abce5ec18b688b791d7.
> > > In 32bit PAE mode, this can lead to a fault when EFER is restored by
> > > the kernel wakeup routines, due to it setting the NX bit for a CPU
> > > that (thanks to the BIOS reset) now incorrectly thinks it lacks the NX
> > > feature. 64bit wakeup already handled this through its common call path
> > > that would hit verify_cpu(). 32bit has a separate path for restoring
> > > CPU state on S3 wakeup, and needed to call verify_cpu() to handle this
> > > situation.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
> > > Cc: stable@kernel.org
> >
> > Looks ok to me, but I'm not sure it is stable material.
>
> Well, I figured anything that shipped with
> ebba638ae723d8a8fc2f7abce5ec18b688b791d7 should get it, since it is
> a regression in the 32bit PAE with BIOS-disabled NX corner-case.
Aha, if it is an regression it makes sense for stable..
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-03 21:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-01 21:19 [PATCH] x86: add missing verify_cpu to 32bit wakeup Kees Cook
2011-07-01 21:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-01 22:36 ` Kees Cook
2011-07-01 23:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-03 12:15 ` Pavel Machek
2011-07-03 19:15 ` Kees Cook
2011-07-03 21:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-03 21:34 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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