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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] x86: Allow breakpoints to emulate call functions
On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 9:21 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> TL;DR, on x86_32 kernel->kernel IRET frames are only 3 entries and do
> not include ESP/SS, so not only wasn't regs->sp setup, if you changed it
> it wouldn't be effective and corrupt random stack state.

Indeed, the 32-bit case for same-RPL exceptions/iret is entirely
different, and I'd forgotten about that.

And honestly, this makes the 32-bit case much worse. Now the entry
stack modifications of int3 suddenly affect not just the entry, but
every exit too.

This is _exactly_ the kind of subtle kernel entry/exit code I wanted
us to avoid.

And while your code looks kind of ok, it's subtly buggy. This sequence:

+ pushl %eax
+ movl %esp, %eax
+
+ movl 4*4(%eax), %esp # restore (modified) regs->sp
+
+ /* rebuild IRET frame */
+ pushl 3*4(%eax) # flags
+ pushl 2*4(%eax) # cs
+ pushl 1*4(%eax) # ip
+
+ andl $0x0000ffff, 4(%esp) # clear high CS bits
+
+ movl (%eax), %eax # restore eax

looks very wrong to me. When you do that "restore (modified)
regs->sp", isn't that now resetting %esp to the point where %eax now
points below the stack? So if we get an NMI in this sequence, that
will overwrite the parts you are trying to copy from?

Am I missing something? doesn't it need to be done something like

pushl %eax
pushl %ecx
movl 20(%esp),%eax # possibly modified regs->sp
movl 16(%esp),%ecx # flags
movl %ecx,-4(%eax)
movl 12(%esp),%ecx # cs
movl %ecx,-8(%eax)
movl 8(%esp),%ecx # ip
movl %ecx, -12(%eax)
movl 4(%esp),%ecx # eax
movl %ecx, -16(%eax)
popl %ecx
lea -16(%eax),%esp
popl %eax

(NOTE NOTE NOTE I might have gotten the offsets and the direction of
the moves *completely* wrong, this is not a serious patch, it's meant
as a "something like this" thing!!)

But now I confused myself, and maybe I'm wrong.

Linus

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