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Commit dc4e0021 authored by Andy Lutomirski's avatar Andy Lutomirski Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86/doublefault/32: Move #DF stack and TSS to cpu_entry_area



There are three problems with the current layout of the doublefault
stack and TSS.  First, the TSS is only cacheline-aligned, which is
not enough -- if the hardware portion of the TSS (struct x86_hw_tss)
crosses a page boundary, horrible things happen [0].  Second, the
stack and TSS are global, so simultaneous double faults on different
CPUs will cause massive corruption.  Third, the whole mechanism
won't work if user CR3 is loaded, resulting in a triple fault [1].

Let the doublefault stack and TSS share a page (which prevents the
TSS from spanning a page boundary), make it percpu, and move it into
cpu_entry_area.  Teach the stack dump code about the doublefault
stack.

[0] Real hardware will read past the end of the page onto the next
    *physical* page if a task switch happens.  Virtual machines may
    have any number of bugs, and I would consider it reasonable for
    a VM to summarily kill the guest if it tries to task-switch to
    a page-spanning TSS.

[1] Real hardware triple faults.  At least some VMs seem to hang.
    I'm not sure what's going on.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent e99b6f46
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