Re: perf_fuzzer compiled for x32 causes reboot

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 08:15:11AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 02/28/2014 07:40 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 07:13:06AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >> If I'm reading this right we end up going from the page fault
> >> tracepoint to copy_from_user_nmi() without going through NMI, and the
> >> cr2 corruption is obvious.  I guess the assumption that only the NMI
> >> path needed to save cr2 is flawed?
> > 
> > It was never assumed it would only go through NMI, but that it would be
> > NMI safe -- and as it turns out, it is that.
> > 
> > What I did assume was that any other callsites would be safe, seeing how
> > they'd already be running in 'normal' contexts.
> > 
> > I had not considered people putting tracepoints _that_ early in the
> > exception paths.
> > 
> > Note that there's more tracepoints there than the one mentioned.
> > 
> 
> Well, I was talking about the assumption spelled out in the comment
> above copy_from_user_nmi() which pretty much states "cr2 is safe because
> cr2 is saved/restored in the NMI wrappers."

That is because we assumed NMI was the only thing that could interrupt a
fault handler before it would read CR2. Never thinking someone would put
a tracepoint there.
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