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x86/iopl/64: Properly context-switch IOPL on Xen PV 

On Xen PV, regs->flags doesn't reliably reflect IOPL and the
exit-to-userspace code doesn't change IOPL.  We need to context
switch it manually.

I'm doing this without going through paravirt because this is
specific to Xen PV.  After the dust settles, we can merge this with
the 32-bit code, tidy up the iopl syscall implementation, and remove
the set_iopl pvop entirely.

Fixes XSA-171.

Reviewewd-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/693c3bd7aeb4d3c27c92c622b7d0f554a458173c.1458162709.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Andy Lutomirski 2016-03-16 14:14:21 -07:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent b08983015c
commit b7a584598a
3 changed files with 15 additions and 1 deletions
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arch/x86/include/asm/xen/hypervisor.h
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@ -62,4 +62,6 @@ void xen_arch_register_cpu(int num);
void xen_arch_unregister_cpu(int num);
#endif
extern void xen_set_iopl_mask(unsigned mask);
#endif /* _ASM_X86_XEN_HYPERVISOR_H */

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arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
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@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
#include <asm/syscalls.h>
#include <asm/debugreg.h>
#include <asm/switch_to.h>
#include <asm/xen/hypervisor.h>
asmlinkage extern void ret_from_fork(void);
@ -411,6 +412,17 @@ __switch_to(struct task_struct *prev_p, struct task_struct *next_p)
task_thread_info(prev_p)->flags & _TIF_WORK_CTXSW_PREV))
__switch_to_xtra(prev_p, next_p, tss);
#ifdef CONFIG_XEN
/*
* On Xen PV, IOPL bits in pt_regs->flags have no effect, and
* current_pt_regs()->flags may not match the current task's
* intended IOPL. We need to switch it manually.
*/
if (unlikely(static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_XENPV) &&
prev->iopl != next->iopl))
xen_set_iopl_mask(next->iopl);
#endif
if (static_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_SYSRET_SS_ATTRS)) {
/*
* AMD CPUs have a misfeature: SYSRET sets the SS selector but

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arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
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@ -961,7 +961,7 @@ static void xen_load_sp0(struct tss_struct *tss,
tss->x86_tss.sp0 = thread->sp0;
}
static void xen_set_iopl_mask(unsigned mask)
void xen_set_iopl_mask(unsigned mask)
{
struct physdev_set_iopl set_iopl;