Impact: fix kernel bug such as:
BUG: scheduling while atomic: dosemu.bin/19680/0x00000004
See also Ubuntu bug 455067 at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/455067
Commits 4915a35e35
("Use preempt_conditional_sti/cli in do_int3, like on x86_64.")
and 3d2a71a596
("x86, traps: converge do_debug handlers")
started disabling preemption in int1 and int3 handlers on i386.
The problem with vm86 is that the call to handle_vm86_trap() may jump
straight to entry_32.S and never returns so preempt is never enabled
again, and there is an imbalance in the preempt count.
Commit be716615fe ("x86, vm86:
fix preemption bug"), which was later (accidentally?) reverted by commit
08d68323d1 ("hw-breakpoints: modifying
generic debug exception to use thread-specific debug registers")
fixed the problem for debug exceptions but not for breakpoints.
There are three solutions to this problem.
1. Reenable preemption before calling handle_vm86_trap(). This
was the approach that was later reverted.
2. Do not disable preemption for i386 in breakpoint and debug handlers.
This was the situation before October 2008. As far as I understand
preemption only needs to be disabled on x86_64 because a seperate stack is
used, but it's nice to have things work the same way on
i386 and x86_64.
3. Let handle_vm86_trap() return instead of jumping to assembly code.
By setting a flag in _TIF_WORK_MASK, either TIF_IRET or TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME,
the code in entry_32.S is instructed to return to 32 bit mode from
V86 mode. The logic in entry_32.S was already present to handle signals.
(I chose TIF_IRET because it's slightly more efficient in
do_notify_resume() in signal.c, but in fact TIF_IRET can probably be
replaced by TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME everywhere.)
I'm submitting approach 3, because I believe it is the most elegant
and prevents future confusion. Still, an obvious
preempt_conditional_cli(regs); is necessary in traps.c to correct the
bug.
[ hpa: This is technically a regression, but because:
1. the regression is so old,
2. the patch seems relatively high risk, justifying more testing, and
3. we're late in the 2.6.36-rc cycle,
I'm queuing it up for the 2.6.37 merge window. It might, however,
justify as a -stable backport at a latter time, hence Cc: stable. ]
Signed-off-by: Bart Oldeman <bartoldeman@users.sourceforge.net>
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Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Convert these to new PTREGSCALL stubs.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Clear TS in irq_ts_save() when in an atomic section
x86: Detect use of extended APIC ID for AMD CPUs
x86: memtest: remove 64-bit division
x86, UV: Fix macros for multiple coherency domains
x86: Fix non-lazy GS handling in sys_vm86()
x86: Add quirk for reboot stalls on a Dell Optiplex 360
x86: Fix UV BAU activation descriptor init
This fixes a stack corruption panic or null dereference oops
due to a bad GS in resume_userspace() when returning from
sys_vm86() and calling lockdep_sys_exit().
Only a problem when CONFIG_LOCKDEP and CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
enabled.
Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This code has apparently used "0" and not VM86_SIGNAL since Linux
1.1.9, when Linus added VM86_SIGNAL to vm86.h. This patch changes the
code to use the symbolic name.
The magic 0 tripped me up in trying to extend the vm86(2) manpage to
actually explain vm86()'s interface -- my greps for VM86_SIGNAL came up
fruitless.
[ Impact: cleanup; no object code change ]
Signed-off-by: Samuel Bronson <naesten@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Some syscalls need to access the pt_regs structure, either to copy
user register state or to modifiy it. This patch adds stubs to load
the address of the pt_regs struct into the %eax register, and changes
the syscalls to take the pointer as an argument instead of relying on
the assumption that the pt_regs structure overlaps the function
arguments.
Drop the use of regparm(1) due to concern about gcc bugs, and to move
in the direction of the eventual removal of regparm(0) for asmlinkage.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Some syscalls need to access the pt_regs structure, either to copy
user register state or to modifiy it. This patch adds stubs to load
the address of the pt_regs struct into the %eax register, and changes
the syscalls to regparm(1) to receive the pt_regs pointer as the
first argument.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
On x86_32, %gs is handled lazily. It's not saved and restored on
kernel entry/exit but only when necessary which usually is during task
switch but there are few other places. Currently, it's done by
calling savesegment() and loadsegment() explicitly. Define
get_user_gs(), set_user_gs() and task_user_gs() and use them instead.
While at it, clean up register access macros in signal.c.
This cleans up code a bit and will help future changes.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch renames VM_MASK to X86_VM_MASK (which
in turn defined as alias to X86_EFLAGS_VM) to better
distinguish from virtual memory flags. We can't just
use X86_EFLAGS_VM instead because it is also used
for conditional compilation
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Use force_sig in handle_vm86_trap like other machine traps do.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
fastcall is always defined to be empty, remove it from arch/x86
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This changes size-specific register names (eip/rip, esp/rsp, etc.) to
generic names in the thread and tss structures.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
We have a lot of code which differs only by the naming of specific
members of structures that contain registers. In order to enable
additional unifications, this patch drops the e- or r- size prefix
from the register names in struct pt_regs, and drops the x- prefixes
for segment registers on the 32-bit side.
This patch also performs the equivalent renames in some additional
places that might be candidates for unification in the future.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Since the x86 merge, lots of files that referenced their own filenames
are no longer correct. Rather than keep them up to date, just delete
them, as they add no real value.
Additionally:
- fix up comment formatting in scx200_32.c
- Remove a credit from myself in setup_64.c from a time when we had no SCM
- remove longwinded history from tsc_32.c which can be figured out from
git.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
