[PATCH v5 09/17] x86/entry: Add new, comprehensible entry and exit hooks

Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-03T19:48:04Z

The current entry and exit code is incomprehensible, appears to work
primary by luck, and is very difficult to incrementally improve. Add
new code in preparation for simply deleting the old code.

prepare_exit_to_usermode is a new function that will handle all slow
path exits to user mode. It is called with IRQs disabled and it
leaves us in a state in which it is safe to immediately return to
user mode. IRQs must not be re-enabled at any point after
prepare_exit_to_usermode returns and user mode is actually entered.
(We can, of course, fail to enter user mode and treat that failure
as a fresh entry to kernel mode.) All callers of do_notify_resume
will be migrated to call prepare_exit_to_usermode instead;
prepare_exit_to_usermode needs to do everything that
do_notify_resume does, but it also takes care of scheduling and
context tracking. Unlike do_notify_resume, it does not need to be
called in a loop.

syscall_return_slowpath is exactly what it sounds like. It will be
called on any syscall exit slow path. It will replaces
syscall_trace_leave and it calls prepare_exit_to_usermode on the way
out.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
---
arch/x86/entry/common.c | 112 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 111 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/common.c b/arch/x86/entry/common.c
index 9a327ee24eef..febc53086a69 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/common.c
@@ -207,6 +207,7 @@ long syscall_trace_enter(struct pt_regs *regs)
return syscall_trace_enter_phase2(regs, arch, phase1_result);
}

+/* Deprecated. */
void syscall_trace_leave(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
bool step;
@@ -237,8 +238,117 @@ void syscall_trace_leave(struct pt_regs *regs)
user_enter();
}

+static struct thread_info *pt_regs_to_thread_info(struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+ unsigned long top_of_stack =
+ (unsigned long)(regs + 1) + TOP_OF_KERNEL_STACK_PADDING;
+ return (struct thread_info *)(top_of_stack - THREAD_SIZE);
+}
+
+/* Called with IRQs disabled. */
+__visible void prepare_exit_to_usermode(struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+ if (WARN_ON(!irqs_disabled()))
+ local_irq_disable();
+
+ /*
+ * In order to return to user mode, we need to have IRQs off with
+ * none of _TIF_SIGPENDING, _TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME, _TIF_USER_RETURN_NOTIFY,
+ * _TIF_UPROBE, or _TIF_NEED_RESCHED set. Several of these flags
+ * can be set at any time on preemptable kernels if we have IRQs on,
+ * so we need to loop. Disabling preemption wouldn't help: doing the
+ * work to clear some of the flags can sleep.
+ */
+ while (true) {
+ u32 cached_flags =
+ READ_ONCE(pt_regs_to_thread_info(regs)->flags);
+
+ if (!(cached_flags & (_TIF_SIGPENDING | _TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME |
+ _TIF_UPROBE | _TIF_NEED_RESCHED)))
+ break;
+
+ /* We have work to do. */
+ local_irq_enable();
+
+ if (cached_flags & _TIF_NEED_RESCHED)
+ schedule();
+
+ if (cached_flags & _TIF_UPROBE)
+ uprobe_notify_resume(regs);
+
+ /* deal with pending signal delivery */
+ if (cached_flags & _TIF_SIGPENDING)
+ do_signal(regs);
+
+ if (cached_flags & _TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME) {
+ clear_thread_flag(TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME);
+ tracehook_notify_resume(regs);
+ }
+
+ if (cached_flags & _TIF_USER_RETURN_NOTIFY)
+ fire_user_return_notifiers();
+
+ /* Disable IRQs and retry */
+ local_irq_disable();
+ }
+
+ user_enter();
+}
+
+/*
+ * Called with IRQs on and fully valid regs. Returns with IRQs off in a
+ * state such that we can immediately switch to user mode.
+ */
+__visible void syscall_return_slowpath(struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+ struct thread_info *ti = pt_regs_to_thread_info(regs);
+ u32 cached_flags = READ_ONCE(ti->flags);
+ bool step;
+
+ CT_WARN_ON(ct_state() != CONTEXT_KERNEL);
+
+ if (WARN(irqs_disabled(), "syscall %ld left IRQs disabled",
+ regs->orig_ax))
+ local_irq_enable();
+
+ /*
+ * First do one-time work. If these work items are enabled, we
+ * want to run them exactly once per syscall exit with IRQs on.
+ */
+ if (cached_flags & (_TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE | _TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT |
+ _TIF_SINGLESTEP | _TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT)) {
+ audit_syscall_exit(regs);
+
+ if (cached_flags & _TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT)
+ trace_sys_exit(regs, regs->ax);
+
+ /*
+ * If TIF_SYSCALL_EMU is set, we only get here because of
+ * TIF_SINGLESTEP (i.e. this is PTRACE_SYSEMU_SINGLESTEP).
+ * We already reported this syscall instruction in
+ * syscall_trace_enter().
+ */
+ step = unlikely(
+ (cached_flags & (_TIF_SINGLESTEP | _TIF_SYSCALL_EMU))
+ == _TIF_SINGLESTEP);
+ if (step || cached_flags & _TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE)
+ tracehook_report_syscall_exit(regs, step);
+ }
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
+ /*
+ * Compat syscalls set TS_COMPAT. Make sure we clear it before
+ * returning to user mode.
+ */
+ ti->status &= ~TS_COMPAT;
+#endif
+
+ local_irq_disable();
+ prepare_exit_to_usermode(regs);
+}
+
/*
- * notification of userspace execution resumption
+ * Deprecated notification of userspace execution resumption
* - triggered by the TIF_WORK_MASK flags
*/
__visible void
--
2.4.3