Commit 45fe6dee authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched/x86: Save [ER]FLAGS on context switch

commit 6690e86b upstream.

Effectively reverts commit:

  2c7577a7 ("sched/x86_64: Don't save flags on context switch")

Specifically because SMAP uses FLAGS.AC which invalidates the claim
that the kernel has clean flags.

In particular; while preemption from interrupt return is fine (the
IRET frame on the exception stack contains FLAGS) it breaks any code
that does synchonous scheduling, including preempt_enable().

This has become a significant issue ever since commit:

  5b24a7a2 ("Add 'unsafe' user access functions for batched accesses")

provided for means of having 'normal' C code between STAC / CLAC,
exposing the FLAGS.AC state. So far this hasn't led to trouble,
however fix it before it comes apart.
Reported-by: default avatarJulien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: default avatarAndy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: 5b24a7a2 ("Add 'unsafe' user access functions for batched accesses")
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 621881df
......@@ -219,6 +219,7 @@ ENTRY(__switch_to_asm)
pushl %ebx
pushl %edi
pushl %esi
pushfl
/* switch stack */
movl %esp, TASK_threadsp(%eax)
......@@ -241,6 +242,7 @@ ENTRY(__switch_to_asm)
#endif
/* restore callee-saved registers */
popfl
popl %esi
popl %edi
popl %ebx
......
......@@ -313,6 +313,7 @@ ENTRY(__switch_to_asm)
pushq %r13
pushq %r14
pushq %r15
pushfq
/* switch stack */
movq %rsp, TASK_threadsp(%rdi)
......@@ -335,6 +336,7 @@ ENTRY(__switch_to_asm)
#endif
/* restore callee-saved registers */
popfq
popq %r15
popq %r14
popq %r13
......
......@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ asmlinkage void ret_from_fork(void);
/* data that is pointed to by thread.sp */
struct inactive_task_frame {
unsigned long flags;
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
unsigned long r15;
unsigned long r14;
......
......@@ -129,6 +129,13 @@ int copy_thread_tls(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long sp,
struct task_struct *tsk;
int err;
/*
* For a new task use the RESET flags value since there is no before.
* All the status flags are zero; DF and all the system flags must also
* be 0, specifically IF must be 0 because we context switch to the new
* task with interrupts disabled.
*/
frame->flags = X86_EFLAGS_FIXED;
frame->bp = 0;
frame->ret_addr = (unsigned long) ret_from_fork;
p->thread.sp = (unsigned long) fork_frame;
......
......@@ -268,6 +268,14 @@ int copy_thread_tls(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long sp,
childregs = task_pt_regs(p);
fork_frame = container_of(childregs, struct fork_frame, regs);
frame = &fork_frame->frame;
/*
* For a new task use the RESET flags value since there is no before.
* All the status flags are zero; DF and all the system flags must also
* be 0, specifically IF must be 0 because we context switch to the new
* task with interrupts disabled.
*/
frame->flags = X86_EFLAGS_FIXED;
frame->bp = 0;
frame->ret_addr = (unsigned long) ret_from_fork;
p->thread.sp = (unsigned long) fork_frame;
......
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