Thread (42 messages) 42 messages, 3 authors, 2016-12-17
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[PATCH 3.12 20/38] x86/traps: Ignore high word of regs->cs in early_fixup_exception()

From: Jiri Slaby <hidden>
Date: 2016-12-13 19:58:28
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Subsystem: the rest, x86 architecture (32-bit and 64-bit) · Maintainers: Linus Torvalds, Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen

From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>

3.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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commit fc0e81b2bea0ebceb71889b61d2240856141c9ee upstream.

On the 80486 DX, it seems that some exceptions may leave garbage in
the high bits of CS.  This causes sporadic failures in which
early_fixup_exception() refuses to fix up an exception.

As far as I can tell, this has been buggy for a long time, but the
problem seems to have been exacerbated by commits:

  1e02ce4cccdc ("x86: Store a per-cpu shadow copy of CR4")
  e1bfc11c5a6f ("x86/init: Fix cr4_init_shadow() on CR4-less machines")

This appears to have broken for as long as we've had early
exception handling.

[ This backport should apply to kernels from 3.4 - 4.5. ]

Fixes: 4c5023a3fa2e ("x86-32: Handle exception table entries during early boot")
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Reported-by: Matthew Whitehead <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <redacted>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S b/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S
index 30a2aa3782fa..879e67acf463 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S
@@ -564,7 +564,7 @@ early_idt_handler_common:
 	movl %eax,%ds
 	movl %eax,%es
 
-	cmpl $(__KERNEL_CS),32(%esp)
+	cmpw $(__KERNEL_CS),32(%esp)
 	jne 10f
 
 	leal 28(%esp),%eax	# Pointer to %eip
-- 
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