Re: [v3 PATCH 07/10] x86: Add emulation code for UMIP instructions

From: Ricardo Neri
Date: Thu Jan 26 2017 - 00:54:57 EST


On Wed, 2017-01-25 at 12:38 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 01/25/17 12:23, Ricardo Neri wrote:
> > + case UMIP_SMSW:
> > + dummy_value = CR0_STATE;
>
> Unless the user space process is running in 64-bit mode this value
> should be & 0xffff.

But wouldn't that prevent the bits CR0[63:16] or CR0[31:16] from being
copied when a register operand is used? According to the Intel Software
Development manual, SMSW returns

SMSW r16 operand size 16, store CR0[15:0] in r16
SMSW r32 operand size 32, zero-extend CR0[31:0], and store in r32
SMSW r64 operand size 64, zero-extend CR0[63:0], and store in r64

The number of bytes returned by the emulated results is controlled by
the data_size variable. If it finds that the result will be saved in a
memory location, it will only copy CR0[15:0], which is the expected
behavior of SMSW if the result is to be copied in memory.

> I'm not sure if we should even support fixing up
> UMIP instructions in 64-bit mode.

Probably not. The whole point of the emulation was to support
virtual-8086 mode and 32-bit mode.
>
> Also, please put an explicit /* fall through */ here.

Will do.
>
> > + /*
> > + * These two instructions return a 16-bit value. We return
> > + * all zeros. This is equivalent to a null descriptor for
> > + * str and sldt.
> > + */
> > + case UMIP_SLDT:
> > + case UMIP_STR:
> > + /* if operand is a register, it is zero-extended*/
> > + if (X86_MODRM_MOD(insn->modrm.value) == 3) {
> > + memset(data, 0, insn->opnd_bytes);
> > + *data_size = insn->opnd_bytes;
> > + /* if not, only the two least significant bytes are copied */
> > + } else {
> > + *data_size = 2;
> > + }
> > + memcpy(data, &dummy_value, sizeof(dummy_value));
> > + break;

The code above controls how many bytes are copied as the result of SMSW.

> > + default:
> > + return -EINVAL;
> > + }
> > + return 0;
>
>
> > +bool fixup_umip_exception(struct pt_regs *regs)
> > +{
> > + struct insn insn;
> > + unsigned char buf[MAX_INSN_SIZE];
> > + /* 10 bytes is the maximum size of the result of UMIP instructions */
> > + unsigned char dummy_data[10] = {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0};
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
> > + int x86_64 = user_64bit_mode(regs);
> > +#else
> > + int x86_64 = 0;
> > +#endif
>
> Again, could we simply do:
>
> if (user_64bit_mode(regs))
> return false;
>
> or are there known users of these instructions *in 64-bit mode*?

I am not aware of any. In that case, I will make this code return in
this case.

Thanks and BR,
Ricardo
>
> -hpa
>
>