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x86/entry: Clarify the RF saving/restoring situation with SYSCALL/SYSRET

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Clarify why exactly RF cannot be restored properly by SYSRET to avoid
confusion.

No functionality change.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: 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>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160803171429.GA2590@nazgul.tnic
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Borislav Petkov 2016-08-03 19:14:29 +02:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 5cf0791da5
commit 3e03530587
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arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
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@ -288,11 +288,15 @@ return_from_SYSCALL_64:
jne opportunistic_sysret_failed
/*
* SYSRET can't restore RF. SYSRET can restore TF, but unlike IRET,
* restoring TF results in a trap from userspace immediately after
* SYSRET. This would cause an infinite loop whenever #DB happens
* with register state that satisfies the opportunistic SYSRET
* conditions. For example, single-stepping this user code:
* SYSCALL clears RF when it saves RFLAGS in R11 and SYSRET cannot
* restore RF properly. If the slowpath sets it for whatever reason, we
* need to restore it correctly.
*
* SYSRET can restore TF, but unlike IRET, restoring TF results in a
* trap from userspace immediately after SYSRET. This would cause an
* infinite loop whenever #DB happens with register state that satisfies
* the opportunistic SYSRET conditions. For example, single-stepping
* this user code:
*
* movq $stuck_here, %rcx
* pushfq