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author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2019-04-14 17:59:57 +0200 |
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committer | Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> | 2019-04-17 15:14:28 +0200 |
commit | 2a594d4ccf3f10f80b77d71bd3dad10813ac0137 (patch) | |
tree | 9cd3da8abe070c47436bf0217a0cb8ee9720f7ad /Documentation/x86 | |
parent | x86/exceptions: Enable IST guard pages (diff) | |
download | linux-2a594d4ccf3f10f80b77d71bd3dad10813ac0137.tar.xz linux-2a594d4ccf3f10f80b77d71bd3dad10813ac0137.zip |
x86/exceptions: Split debug IST stack
The debug IST stack is actually two separate debug stacks to handle #DB
recursion. This is required because the CPU starts always at top of stack
on exception entry, which means on #DB recursion the second #DB would
overwrite the stack of the first.
The low level entry code therefore adjusts the top of stack on entry so a
secondary #DB starts from a different stack page. But the stack pages are
adjacent without a guard page between them.
Split the debug stack into 3 stacks which are separated by guard pages. The
3rd stack is never mapped into the cpu_entry_area and is only there to
catch triple #DB nesting:
--- top of DB_stack <- Initial stack
--- end of DB_stack
guard page
--- top of DB1_stack <- Top of stack after entering first #DB
--- end of DB1_stack
guard page
--- top of DB2_stack <- Top of stack after entering second #DB
--- end of DB2_stack
guard page
If DB2 would not act as the final guard hole, a second #DB would point the
top of #DB stack to the stack below #DB1 which would be valid and not catch
the not so desired triple nesting.
The backing store does not allocate any memory for DB2 and its guard page
as it is not going to be mapped into the cpu_entry_area.
- Adjust the low level entry code so it adjusts top of #DB with the offset
between the stacks instead of exception stack size.
- Make the dumpstack code aware of the new stacks.
- Adjust the in_debug_stack() implementation and move it into the NMI code
where it belongs. As this is NMI hotpath code, it just checks the full
area between top of DB_stack and bottom of DB1_stack without checking
for the guard page. That's correct because the NMI cannot hit a
stackpointer pointing to the guard page between DB and DB1 stack. Even
if it would, then the NMI operation still is unaffected, but the resume
of the debug exception on the topmost DB stack will crash by touching
the guard page.
[ bp: Make exception_stack_names static const char * const ]
Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: "Chang S. Bae" <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190414160145.439944544@linutronix.de
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/x86')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/kernel-stacks | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/kernel-stacks b/Documentation/x86/kernel-stacks index 1b04596caea9..d1bfb0b95ee0 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/kernel-stacks +++ b/Documentation/x86/kernel-stacks @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ The currently assigned IST stacks are :- middle of switching stacks. Using IST for NMI events avoids making assumptions about the previous state of the kernel stack. -* ESTACK_DB. DEBUG_STKSZ +* ESTACK_DB. EXCEPTION_STKSZ (PAGE_SIZE). Used for hardware debug interrupts (interrupt 1) and for software debug interrupts (INT3). @@ -86,6 +86,11 @@ The currently assigned IST stacks are :- avoids making assumptions about the previous state of the kernel stack. + To handle nested #DB correctly there exist two instances of DB stacks. On + #DB entry the IST stackpointer for #DB is switched to the second instance + so a nested #DB starts from a clean stack. The nested #DB switches + the IST stackpointer to a guard hole to catch triple nesting. + * ESTACK_MCE. EXCEPTION_STKSZ (PAGE_SIZE). Used for interrupt 18 - Machine Check Exception (#MC). |