From 7ea24169097d3d3a3eab2dcc5773bc43fd5593e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 14:26:34 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] x86/asm/entry/64: Disable opportunistic SYSRET if regs->flags has TF set When I wrote the opportunistic SYSRET code, I missed an important difference between SYSRET and IRET. Both instructions are capable of setting EFLAGS.TF, but they behave differently when doing so: - IRET will not issue a #DB trap after execution when it sets TF. This is critical -- otherwise you'd never be able to make forward progress when returning to userspace. - SYSRET, on the other hand, will trap with #DB immediately after returning to CPL3, and the next instruction will never execute. This breaks anything that opportunistically SYSRETs to a user context with TF set. For example, running this code with TF set and a SIGTRAP handler loaded never gets past 'post_nop': extern unsigned char post_nop[]; asm volatile ("pushfq\n\t" "popq %%r11\n\t" "nop\n\t" "post_nop:" : : "c" (post_nop) : "r11"); In my defense, I can't find this documented in the AMD or Intel manual. Fix it by using IRET to restore TF. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Thomas Gleixner Fixes: 2a23c6b8a9c4 ("x86_64, entry: Use sysret to return to userspace when possible") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9472f1ca4c19a38ecda45bba9c91b7168135fcfa.1427923514.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-format-patch failed