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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	x86@kernel.org, Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: x86/paravirt: Detect over-sized patching bugs in paravirt_patch_call()
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 14:30:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190425123045.GD14281@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190425114004.GN4038@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 01:40:04PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> So this then fails to patch the immediate; but the compiler emitted:
> 
> 175:       ff 25 00 00 00 00       jmpq   *0x0(%rip)        # 17b <syscall_return_via_sysret+0x75>
> 		177: R_X86_64_PC32      pv_ops+0xfc
> 
> and pv_ops+0xfc is (+4 because of reloc magic):
> 
> void               (*usergs_sysret64)(void);                             /* 0x100   0x8 */
> 
> which defaults to:
> 
> arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:     .cpu.usergs_sysret64    = native_usergs_sysret64,
> 
> which in turn reads like:
> 
> 0000000000000000 <native_usergs_sysret64>:
> 0:       0f 01 f8                swapgs
> 3:       48 0f 07                sysretq
> 
> So I _really_ don't understand how:
> 
> > Which with the vanilla kernel crashes on boot much, much later:
> > 
> > [    2.478026] PANIC: double fault, error_code: 0x0
> 
> happens.

Just spoke to Juergen on IRC; the most likely explanation is that
(because of PTI) the pv_ops table isn't mapped in the user page-tables
and therefore the indirect jump comes unstuck.



  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-25 12:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-24 13:41 [patch 0/3] x86/paravirt: Rework paravirt patching Thomas Gleixner
2019-04-24 13:41 ` [patch 1/3] x86/paravirt: Remove bogus extern declarations Thomas Gleixner
2019-04-25  7:31   ` [tip:x86/paravirt] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2019-05-24  7:58   ` tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2019-04-24 13:41 ` [patch 2/3] x86/paravirt: Unify 32/64 bit patch code Thomas Gleixner
2019-04-25  7:32   ` [tip:x86/paravirt] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2019-05-24  8:00   ` [tip:x86/paravirt] x86/paravirt: Unify the 32/64 bit paravirt patching code tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2019-04-24 13:41 ` [patch 3/3] x86/paravirt: Replace paravirt patch asm magic Thomas Gleixner
2019-04-25  6:52   ` Ingo Molnar
2019-04-25  7:22     ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-04-25  7:46       ` Juergen Gross
2019-04-25  8:10       ` [PATCH] x86/paravirt: Match paravirt patchlet field definition ordering to initialization ordering Ingo Molnar
2019-04-25  9:17         ` [PATCH] x86/paravirt: Detect oversized patching bugs as they happen and BUG_ON() to avoid later crashes Ingo Molnar
2019-04-25  9:21           ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-25  9:50             ` x86/paravirt: Detect over-sized patching bugs in paravirt_patch_call() Ingo Molnar
2019-04-25 10:22               ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-25 10:57                 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-04-25 11:30                   ` Juergen Gross
2019-04-25 12:30                     ` Juergen Gross
2019-04-25 11:40                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-25 12:30                     ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2019-05-24  7:59               ` [tip:x86/paravirt] " tip-bot for Ingo Molnar
2019-05-24  7:58           ` [tip:x86/paravirt] x86/paravirt: Detect over-sized patching bugs in paravirt_patch_insns() tip-bot for Ingo Molnar
2019-05-24  8:01         ` [tip:x86/paravirt] x86/paravirt: Match paravirt patchlet field definition ordering to initialization ordering tip-bot for Ingo Molnar
2019-04-25  8:08     ` [patch 3/3] x86/paravirt: Replace paravirt patch asm magic Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-25  8:19       ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-25  9:20       ` Ingo Molnar
2019-05-24  8:00   ` [tip:x86/paravirt] x86/paravirt: Replace the " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner

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