Stas Sergeev wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> When I am trying to start one weird program under dosemu, I always get an Oops.
> I have tracked this Oops down to a line of a source code in the kernel, see
> below.
>
> At first, the Oops itself:
> ---
> ksymoops 2.4.3 on i686 2.2.20. Options used
> -V (default)
> -k /proc/ksyms (default)
> -l /proc/modules (default)
> -o /lib/modules/2.2.20/ (default)
> -m /boot/System.map (specified)
>
> Dec 2 21:04:05 localhost kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 000078c3
> Dec 2 21:04:05 localhost kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 0ad2f000, %cr3 = 0ad2f000
> Dec 2 21:04:05 localhost kernel: *pde = 0b802067
> Dec 2 21:04:05 localhost kernel: Oops: 0003
> Dec 2 21:04:05 localhost kernel: CPU: 0
> Dec 2 21:04:05 localhost kernel: EIP: 0010:[handle_vm86_fault+1149/2212]
> Dec 2 21:04:05 localhost kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206
> Dec 2 21:04:05 localhost kernel: eax: 00000009 ebx: 00003013 ecx: 00000020 edx: 00000021
> Dec 2 21:04:05 localhost kernel: esi: 000000f3 edi: 000077d0 ebp: 000c39e0 esp: cad31ea8
> Dec 2 21:04:05 localhost kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
> Dec 2 21:04:05 localhost kernel: Process xdos (pid: 872, process nr: 57, stackpage=cad31000)
> Dec 2 21:04:05 localhost kernel: Stack: 000077d0 000000f4 00003013 000c39e0 00002827 cad31f00 00000000 c010a8cc
> Dec 2 21:04:05 localhost kernel: 00009fff 00000000 00000000 cad30000 cad30000 00002827 c010a90f cad31f00
> Dec 2 21:04:05 localhost kernel: 00000000 cad30000 00000000 c010a05d cad31f00 00000000 00000001 00000005
> Dec 2 21:04:05 localhost kernel: Call Trace: [do_general_protection+0/116] [do_general_protection+67/116] [error_code+53/64] [system_call+52/56]
> Dec 2 21:04:06 localhost kernel: Code: 88 7c 37 00 66 4e 88 5c 37 00 68 9d eb 1b c0 e8 3f 8b 00 00
> Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386
>
> Code; 00000000 Before first symbol
> 00000000 <_EIP>:
> Code; 00000000 Before first symbol
> 0: 88 7c 37 00 mov %bh,0x0(%edi,%esi,1)
> Code; 00000004 Before first symbol
> 4: 66 4e dec %si
> Code; 00000006 Before first symbol
> 6: 88 5c 37 00 mov %bl,0x0(%edi,%esi,1)
> Code; 0000000a Before first symbol
> a: 68 9d eb 1b c0 push $0xc01beb9d
> Code; 0000000e Before first symbol
> f: e8 3f 8b 00 00 call 8b53 <_EIP+0x8b53> 00008b52 Before first symbol
> ---
>
> The faulting code is here:
> arch/i386/kernel/vm86.c:341:
> ---
> #define pushw(base, ptr, val) \
> __asm__ __volatile__( \
> "decw %w0\n\t" \
> "movb %h2,0(%1,%0)\n\t" \ <-- fault is HERE!
> "decw %w0\n\t" \
> "movb %b2,0(%1,%0)" \
> : "=r" (ptr) \
> : "r" (base), "q" (val), "0" (ptr))
> ---
>
> It is executed here, when it GPFs:
> vm86.c:509:
> ---
> case 0x9c:
> SP(regs) -= 2;
> IP(regs)++;
> pushw(ssp, sp, get_vflags(regs)); <--handle_vm86_fault+1149/2212
> VM86_FAULT_RETURN;
> ---
>
> The registers:
> ebx contains 0x3013. This is the value returned by get_vflags(regs).
> edi=0x77d0 and esi=0xf3 contains dosemu's ss and sp.
> So virtual flags are going to be moved to ss:sp to simulate pushf.
> This all seems OK to me and I don't understand why the code
> mov %bh,0x0(%edi,%esi,1)
> can raise GPF with such values in regs.
>
> So, I have collected all the info I ever could from this Oops, but I still
> don't see a bug. I hope someone can help me.
> Any ideas such as how this code (atleast theoretically) can raise GPF?
> Any suggestions such as how can I collect more info on this subject?
>
> I am pretty shure I can reproduce this Oops at any kernel, atleast at any 2.2.x,
> but currently I am using 2.2.20.
Your virtual stack pointer went into a page that's not mapped. The bug
is that we're touching user space without a fault handler, causing an
oops instead of a seg fault. I'll look into cleaning that mess up to
use proper get/put_user macros.
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