Re: perf_fuzzer compiled for x32 causes reboot

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 02/28/2014 07:40 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 07:13:06AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> If I'm reading this right we end up going from the page fault
>> tracepoint to copy_from_user_nmi() without going through NMI, and the
>> cr2 corruption is obvious.  I guess the assumption that only the NMI
>> path needed to save cr2 is flawed?
> 
> It was never assumed it would only go through NMI, but that it would be
> NMI safe -- and as it turns out, it is that.
> 
> What I did assume was that any other callsites would be safe, seeing how
> they'd already be running in 'normal' contexts.
> 
> I had not considered people putting tracepoints _that_ early in the
> exception paths.
> 
> Note that there's more tracepoints there than the one mentioned.
> 

Well, I was talking about the assumption spelled out in the comment
above copy_from_user_nmi() which pretty much states "cr2 is safe because
cr2 is saved/restored in the NMI wrappers."

	-hpa
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