From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
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Subject: Re: [tip:x86/mpx] x86/insn-eval: Add utility function to get segment descriptor
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 19:38:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171205183845.GO3165@worktop.lehotels.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171205181456.akycirziiuhb7crw@pd.tnic>
On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 07:14:56PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 06:48:44PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > This is broken right? You unlock and then return @desc, which afaict can
> > at that point get freed by free_ldt_struct().
> >
> > Something like the below ought to cure; although its not entirely
> > pretty either.
>
> Right.
>
> Or, instead of introducing all the locking, we could also not do
> anything because all that code runs inside fixup_umip_exception() so the
> desc will be valid there.
Sorry what? So either this code is broken because it has IRQs enabled,
or its broken because its trying to acquire a mutex with IRQs disabled.
Which is it?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-05 18:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-27 20:25 [PATCH v10 00/18] x86: Add address resolution code for UMIP and MPX Ricardo Neri
2017-10-27 20:25 ` [PATCH v10 01/18] x86/mm: Relocate page fault error codes to traps.h Ricardo Neri
2017-11-01 20:55 ` [tip:x86/mpx] " tip-bot for Ricardo Neri
2017-10-27 20:25 ` [PATCH v10 02/18] x86/boot: Relocate definition of the initial state of CR0 Ricardo Neri
2017-11-01 20:55 ` [tip:x86/mpx] " tip-bot for Ricardo Neri
2017-10-27 20:25 ` [PATCH v10 03/18] ptrace,x86: Make user_64bit_mode() available to 32-bit builds Ricardo Neri
2017-11-01 20:55 ` [tip:x86/mpx] " tip-bot for Ricardo Neri
2017-10-27 20:25 ` [PATCH v10 04/18] uprobes/x86: Use existing definitions for segment override prefixes Ricardo Neri
2017-11-01 20:56 ` [tip:x86/mpx] " tip-bot for Ricardo Neri
2017-10-27 20:25 ` [PATCH v10 05/18] x86/mpx: Simplify handling of errors when computing linear addresses Ricardo Neri
2017-11-01 20:56 ` [tip:x86/mpx] " tip-bot for Ricardo Neri
2017-10-27 20:25 ` [PATCH v10 06/18] x86/mpx: Use signed variables to compute effective addresses Ricardo Neri
2017-11-01 20:57 ` [tip:x86/mpx] " tip-bot for Ricardo Neri
2017-10-27 20:25 ` [PATCH v10 07/18] x86/mpx: Do not use SIB.index if its value is 100b and ModRM.mod is not 11b Ricardo Neri
2017-11-01 20:57 ` [tip:x86/mpx] " tip-bot for Ricardo Neri
2017-10-27 20:25 ` [PATCH v10 08/18] x86/mpx: Do not use SIB.base if its value is 101b and ModRM.mod = 0 Ricardo Neri
2017-11-01 20:57 ` [tip:x86/mpx] " tip-bot for Ricardo Neri
2017-10-27 20:25 ` [PATCH v10 09/18] x86/mpx, x86/insn: Relocate insn util functions to a new insn-eval file Ricardo Neri
2017-11-01 20:58 ` [tip:x86/mpx] " tip-bot for Ricardo Neri
2017-10-27 20:25 ` [PATCH v10 10/18] x86/insn-eval: Do not BUG on invalid register type Ricardo Neri
2017-11-01 20:58 ` [tip:x86/mpx] " tip-bot for Ricardo Neri
2017-10-27 20:25 ` [PATCH v10 11/18] x86/insn-eval: Add a utility function to get register offsets Ricardo Neri
2017-11-01 20:59 ` [tip:x86/mpx] " tip-bot for Ricardo Neri
2017-10-27 20:25 ` [PATCH v10 12/18] x86/insn-eval: Add utility function to identify string instructions Ricardo Neri
2017-11-01 20:59 ` [tip:x86/mpx] " tip-bot for Ricardo Neri
2017-10-27 20:25 ` [PATCH v10 13/18] x86/insn-eval: Add utility functions to get segment selector Ricardo Neri
2017-11-01 21:00 ` [tip:x86/mpx] " tip-bot for Ricardo Neri
2017-11-09 11:12 ` [PATCH v10 13/18] " Arnd Bergmann
2017-11-09 13:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-10-27 20:25 ` [PATCH v10 14/18] x86/insn-eval: Add utility function to get segment descriptor Ricardo Neri
2017-11-01 21:00 ` [tip:x86/mpx] " tip-bot for Ricardo Neri
2017-12-05 17:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-12-05 18:14 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-12-05 18:38 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2017-12-05 21:29 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-12-07 7:23 ` Ricardo Neri
2017-12-07 8:03 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-12-07 7:26 ` Ricardo Neri
2017-12-07 8:01 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-10-27 20:25 ` [PATCH v10 15/18] x86/insn-eval: Add utility functions to get segment descriptor base address and limit Ricardo Neri
2017-11-01 21:00 ` [tip:x86/mpx] " tip-bot for Ricardo Neri
2017-10-27 20:25 ` [PATCH v10 16/18] x86/insn-eval: Add function to get default params of code segment Ricardo Neri
2017-11-01 21:01 ` [tip:x86/mpx] " tip-bot for Ricardo Neri
2017-10-27 20:25 ` [PATCH v10 17/18] x86/insn-eval: Indicate a 32-bit displacement if ModRM.mod is 0 and ModRM.rm is 101b Ricardo Neri
2017-11-01 21:01 ` [tip:x86/mpx] " tip-bot for Ricardo Neri
2017-10-27 20:25 ` [PATCH v10 18/18] x86/insn-eval: Incorporate segment base in linear address computation Ricardo Neri
2017-11-01 17:56 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-11-01 19:08 ` Ricardo Neri
2017-11-01 21:02 ` [tip:x86/mpx] " tip-bot for Ricardo Neri
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