Re: [tip:x86/asm] x86-64: Use normal ptregs stub for execve

[Brian Gerst]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> * tip-bot for Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Commit-ID: Âf19a25c872b20ae4357f72687cf3e7b0da220ee2
>> Gitweb: Â Â http://git.kernel.org/tip/f19a25c872b20ae4357f72687cf3e7b0da220ee2
>> Author: Â Â Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
>> AuthorDate: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:47:33 -0500
>> Committer: ÂH. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
>> CommitDate: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:38:14 -0800
>>
>> x86-64: Use normal ptregs stub for execve
>>
>> Execve historically passed regs by value, so it had a seperate stub.
>> This is no longer true, so change it to use a normal PTREGSCALL stub.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
>> LKML-Reference: <1264434453-2204-1-git-send-email-brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> Âarch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S | Â 17 +----------------
>> Â1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>
> FYI, -tip testing found that this commit breaks the grub binary on 64-bit,
> simply running /sbin/grub causes it to segfault:
>
> [ 3145.999766] grub[6706] general protection ip:805c481 sp:ff95629c error:0 in
> grub[8048000+8c000]
>
> i've excluded this commit for now.
>
> Â Â Â ÂIngo
>
>

I see what is going on.  Grub is a 32-bit statically linked executable
even on a 64-bit distro.  The old execve stub forced return to
userspace via iret, but PTREGSCALL apparently doesn't.  This means
that the 32-bit %cs isn't getting set.  Drop this patch for now.

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Brian Gerst
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