[tip:x86/asm] x86/entry/32: Restore FLAGS on SYSEXIT

From: tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski
Date: Thu Mar 10 2016 - 06:03:21 EST


Commit-ID: c2c9b52fab0d0cf993476ed4c34f24da5a1205ae
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/c2c9b52fab0d0cf993476ed4c34f24da5a1205ae
Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 19:00:27 -0800
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 09:48:12 +0100

x86/entry/32: Restore FLAGS on SYSEXIT

We weren't restoring FLAGS at all on SYSEXIT. Apparently no one cared.

With this patch applied, native kernels should always honor
task_pt_regs()->flags, which opens the door for some sys_iopl()
cleanups. I'll do those as a separate series, though, since getting
it right will involve tweaking some paravirt ops.

( The short version is that, before this patch, sys_iopl(), invoked via
SYSENTER, wasn't guaranteed to ever transfer the updated
regs->flags, so sys_iopl() had to change the hardware flags register
as well. )

Reported-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3f98b207472dc9784838eb5ca2b89dcc845ce269.1457578375.git.luto@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
index 8daa812..7610906 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
@@ -343,6 +343,15 @@ sysenter_past_esp:
popl %eax /* pt_regs->ax */

/*
+ * Restore all flags except IF. (We restore IF separately because
+ * STI gives a one-instruction window in which we won't be interrupted,
+ * whereas POPF does not.)
+ */
+ addl $PT_EFLAGS-PT_DS, %esp /* point esp at pt_regs->flags */
+ btr $X86_EFLAGS_IF_BIT, (%esp)
+ popfl
+
+ /*
* Return back to the vDSO, which will pop ecx and edx.
* Don't bother with DS and ES (they already contain __USER_DS).
*/