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SubjectRe: [PATCH V4 04/50] x86/xen: Add xenpv_restore_regs_and_return_to_usermode()
On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 10:13:34PM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> From: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>
>
> While in the native case, PER_CPU_VAR(cpu_tss_rw + TSS_sp0) is the
> trampoline stack. But XEN pv doesn't use trampoline stack, so
> PER_CPU_VAR(cpu_tss_rw + TSS_sp0) is also the kernel stack. Hence source
> and destination stacks are identical in that case, which means reusing
> swapgs_restore_regs_and_return_to_usermode() in XEN pv would cause %rsp
> to move up to the top of the kernel stack and leave the IRET frame below
> %rsp, which is dangerous to be corrupted if #NMI / #MC hit as either of
> these events occurring in the middle of the stack pushing would clobber
> data on the (original) stack.
>
> And swapgs_restore_regs_and_return_to_usermode() pushing the IRET frame
> on to the original address is useless and error-prone when there is any
> future attempt to modify the code.
>
> Fixes: 7f2590a110b8 ("x86/entry/64: Use a per-CPU trampoline stack for IDT entries")
> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
> Cc: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
> Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 9 ++++++---
> arch/x86/entry/entry_64_compat.S | 7 ++++---
> arch/x86/xen/xen-asm.S | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
> index 9d468c8877e2..0dde5a253dda 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
> @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ SYM_INNER_LABEL(entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe, SYM_L_GLOBAL)
> * In the Xen PV case we must use iret anyway.
> */
>
> - ALTERNATIVE "", "jmp swapgs_restore_regs_and_return_to_usermode", \
> + ALTERNATIVE "", "jmp xenpv_restore_regs_and_return_to_usermode", \

Instead of sprinkling all those ALTERNATIVE calls everywhere,
why don't you simply jump to the xenpv-one at the
swapgs_restore_regs_and_return_to_usermode label itself and have a
single ALTERNATIVE there?

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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