From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
"Robert O'Callahan" <robert@ocallahan.org>
Cc: "Bae, Chang Seok" <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>,
Kyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
"Shankar, Ravi V" <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Hansen, Dave" <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] x86/cpu fsgsbase breaks TLS in 32 bit rr tracees on a 64 bit system
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 16:52:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b0813ec5-b163-cc11-bfc9-e9d08c9c4ff2@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrUrvrQNw6dPau_rtHjA_YuCVdCTWYd4dsdcvcGsOaspmg@mail.gmail.com>
On 2020-08-24 14:10, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
> PTRACE_READ_SEGMENT_DESCRIPTOR to read a segment descriptor.
>
> PTRACE_SET_FS / PTRACE_SET_GS: Sets FS or GS and updates the base accordingly.
>
> PTRACE_READ_SEGMENT_BASE: pass in a segment selector, get a base out.
> You would use this to populate the base fields.
>
> or perhaps a ptrace SETREGS variant that tries to preserve the old
> base semantics and magically sets the bases to match the selectors if
> the selectors are nonzero.
>
> Do any of these choices sound preferable to any of you?
>
My suggestion would be to export the GDT and LDT as a (readonly or mostly
readonly) regset(s) rather than adding entirely new operations. We could allow
the LDT and the per-thread GDT entries to be written, subject to the same
limitations as the corresponding system calls.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-24 23:53 UTC|newest]
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2020-08-24 21:10 ` [REGRESSION] x86/cpu fsgsbase breaks TLS in 32 bit rr tracees on a 64 bit system Andy Lutomirski
2020-08-24 23:52 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2020-08-25 0:30 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-08-25 0:46 ` Kyle Huey
2020-08-25 16:12 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-08-25 16:32 ` Kyle Huey
2020-08-25 16:46 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-08-25 17:31 ` Kyle Huey
2020-08-25 18:50 ` Kyle Huey
2020-08-25 19:32 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-08-25 20:03 ` Kyle Huey
2020-08-25 15:13 ` hpa
2020-08-21 4:41 Kyle Huey
2020-08-21 20:08 ` Bae, Chang Seok
2020-08-21 21:32 ` Kyle Huey
2020-08-21 21:46 ` Bae, Chang Seok
2020-08-22 2:53 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-08-22 3:03 ` Kyle Huey
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