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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3] x86/umip: Add emulation/spoofing for SLDT and STR instructions
On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 05:38:12PM -0700, Ricardo Neri wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 03:44:24PM -0700, Brendan Shanks wrote:
> > Add emulation/spoofing of SLDT and STR for both 32- and 64-bit
> > processes.
> >
> > Wine users have found a small number of Windows apps using SLDT that
> > were crashing when run on UMIP-enabled systems.
> >
> > Reported-by: Andreas Rammhold <andi@notmuch.email>
> > Originally-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Brendan Shanks <bshanks@codeweavers.com>
> > ---
> >
> > v3: Use (GDT_ENTRY_TSS * 8) for task register selector instead of
> > harcoding 0x40.
> >
> > arch/x86/kernel/umip.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------
> > 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/umip.c b/arch/x86/kernel/umip.c
> > index 8d5cbe1bbb3b..166c579b0273 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/umip.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/umip.c
> > @@ -244,16 +244,35 @@ static int emulate_umip_insn(struct insn *insn, int umip_inst,
> > *data_size += UMIP_GDT_IDT_LIMIT_SIZE;
> > memcpy(data, &dummy_limit, UMIP_GDT_IDT_LIMIT_SIZE);
> >
> > - } else if (umip_inst == UMIP_INST_SMSW) {
> > - unsigned long dummy_value = CR0_STATE;
> > + } else if (umip_inst == UMIP_INST_SMSW || umip_inst == UMIP_INST_SLDT ||
> > + umip_inst == UMIP_INST_STR) {
> > + unsigned long dummy_value;
> > +
> > + if (umip_inst == UMIP_INST_SMSW)
> > + dummy_value = CR0_STATE;
> > + else if (umip_inst == UMIP_INST_STR)
> > + dummy_value = GDT_ENTRY_TSS * 8;
> > + else if (umip_inst == UMIP_INST_SLDT)
> > + {
>
> This brace should go in the previous line. Also, if you use braces in
> the last part of the conditional you should probably use them in the
> previous ones. I guess in this case it woudln't improve readability.
> Instead, you can probably have a switch instead of the three ifs. That
> probably does improve readability and solves the dilemma of needing to
> put braces in all the one-line conditionals.
>
> BTW, you should also delete the comment at the top of the file saying
> that str and sldt will not be emulated:
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/umip.c b/arch/x86/kernel/umip.c
> index 166c579b0273..0984a55eb8c0 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/umip.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/umip.c
> @@ -45,9 +45,6 @@
> * value that, lies close to the top of the kernel memory. The limit for the GDT
> * and the IDT are set to zero.
> *
> - * Given that SLDT and STR are not commonly used in programs that run on WineHQ
> - * or DOSEMU2, they are not emulated.
> - *
> * The instruction smsw is emulated to return the value that the register CR0
> * has at boot time as set in the head_32.

... And also explain that the emulated values for str and sldt are the
simply the values that Linux assigns programatically.

Thanks and BR,
Ricardo

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