From 16561f27f94e6193ee8f5b9b74801e1668c86efc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Hansen Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 16:21:18 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] x86/entry: Add some paranoid entry/exit CR3 handling comments Andi Kleen was just asking me about the NMI CR3 handling and why we restore it unconditionally. I was *sure* we had documented it well. We did not. Add some documentation. We have common entry code where the CR3 value is stashed, but three places in two big code paths where we restore it. I put bulk of the comments in this common path and then refer to it from the other spots. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: luto@kernel.org Cc: bp@alien8.de Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Borislav Petkov Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181012232118.3EAAE77B@viggo.jf.intel.com --- arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S index 957dfb693ecc..1d9b4a300c8c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S +++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S @@ -1187,6 +1187,18 @@ ENTRY(paranoid_entry) xorl %ebx, %ebx 1: + /* + * Always stash CR3 in %r14. This value will be restored, + * verbatim, at exit. Needed if kernel is interrupted + * after switching to the user CR3 value but before + * returning to userspace. + * + * This is also why CS (stashed in the "iret frame" by the + * hardware at entry) can not be used: this may be a return + * to kernel code, but with a user CR3 value. The %ebx flag + * for SWAPGS is also unusable for CR3 because there is a + * window with a user GS and a kernel CR3. + */ SAVE_AND_SWITCH_TO_KERNEL_CR3 scratch_reg=%rax save_reg=%r14 ret @@ -1211,11 +1223,13 @@ ENTRY(paranoid_exit) testl %ebx, %ebx /* swapgs needed? */ jnz .Lparanoid_exit_no_swapgs TRACE_IRQS_IRETQ + /* Always restore stashed CR3 value (see paranoid_entry) */ RESTORE_CR3 scratch_reg=%rbx save_reg=%r14 SWAPGS_UNSAFE_STACK jmp .Lparanoid_exit_restore .Lparanoid_exit_no_swapgs: TRACE_IRQS_IRETQ_DEBUG + /* Always restore stashed CR3 value (see paranoid_entry) */ RESTORE_CR3 scratch_reg=%rbx save_reg=%r14 .Lparanoid_exit_restore: jmp restore_regs_and_return_to_kernel @@ -1626,6 +1640,7 @@ end_repeat_nmi: movq $-1, %rsi call do_nmi + /* Always restore stashed CR3 value (see paranoid_entry) */ RESTORE_CR3 scratch_reg=%r15 save_reg=%r14 testl %ebx, %ebx /* swapgs needed? */ -- 2.30.2