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x86/traps: Ignore high word of regs->cs in early_fixup_exception() 

On the 80486 DX, it seems that some exceptions may leave garbage in
the high bits of CS.  This causes sporadic failures in which
early_fixup_exception() refuses to fix up an exception.

As far as I can tell, this has been buggy for a long time, but the
problem seems to have been exacerbated by commits:

  1e02ce4ccc ("x86: Store a per-cpu shadow copy of CR4")
  e1bfc11c5a ("x86/init: Fix cr4_init_shadow() on CR4-less machines")

This appears to have broken for as long as we've had early
exception handling.

[ Note to stable maintainers: This patch is needed all the way back to 3.4,
  but it will only apply to 4.6 and up, as it depends on commit:

    0e861fbb5b ("x86/head: Move early exception panic code into early_fixup_exception()")

  If you want to backport to kernels before 4.6, please don't backport the
  prerequisites (there was a big chain of them that rewrote a lot of the
  early exception machinery); instead, ask me and I can send you a one-liner
  that will apply. ]

Reported-by: Matthew Whitehead <tedheadster@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 4c5023a3fa ("x86-32: Handle exception table entries during early boot")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cb32c69920e58a1a58e7b5cad975038a69c0ce7d.1479609510.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Andy Lutomirski 2016-11-19 18:42:40 -08:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 91e08ab0c8
commit fc0e81b2be
1 changed files with 6 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -135,7 +135,12 @@ void __init early_fixup_exception(struct pt_regs *regs, int trapnr)
if (early_recursion_flag > 2)
goto halt_loop;
if (regs->cs != __KERNEL_CS)
/*
* Old CPUs leave the high bits of CS on the stack
* undefined. I'm not sure which CPUs do this, but at least
* the 486 DX works this way.
*/
if ((regs->cs & 0xFFFF) != __KERNEL_CS)
goto fail;
/*