Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack

["Mika Penttilä" <mika.penttila@nextfour.com>]

On 02.03.2016 18:55, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 06:38:15PM +0200, Mika Penttilä wrote:
>> I actually looked at it a while too...
>>
>> The
>>   movq stack_start - __START_KERNEL_map, %rsp
>>
>> turns into (objdump disassembly)
>>
>>   mov    0x0,%rsp
>>
>> with relocation
>> 0000000000000004 R_X86_64_32S      stack_start+0x0000000080000000
>>
>> Now stack_start is at ffffffff81ef3380, so the relocation gives 1ef3380 which would be correct, so why the
>> second subq ?
>>
>> You may explain :)
> Here it is :-)
>
> $ readelf -a vmlinux | grep stack_start
>  70526: ffffffff81cbabf8     0 NOTYPE  GLOBAL DEFAULT   14 stack_start
>
> 0xffffffff81cbabf8 - __START_KERNEL_map =
> 0xffffffff81cbabf8 - 0xffffffff80000000 =
> 0x1cbabf8
>
> (gdb) x/x 0x1cbabf8
> 0x1cbabf8:      0xffffffff81c03ff8
>
> (You don't need gdb for that - you can hexdump or objdump vmlinux).
>
> Now stack_start is:
>
>         GLOBAL(stack_start)
>         .quad  init_thread_union+THREAD_SIZE-8
>
> which is
>
> $ readelf -a vmlinux | grep init_thread_union
>  82491: ffffffff81c00000 16384 OBJECT  GLOBAL DEFAULT   14 init_thread_union
>
> so init_thread_union+THREAD_SIZE-8 = 0xffffffff81c00000 + 4*4096-8 = 0xffffffff81c03ff8
>
> So you have to subtract __START_KERNEL_map again because it has there a
> virtual address and we haven't enabled paging yet:
>
> 0xffffffff81c03ff8 - 0xffffffff80000000 = 0x1c03ff8.
>
> Makes sense?
>
Ah missed completely that stack_start is effectively a pointer to stack..

Thanks,
Mika