Re: [PATCH] x86_64,xen,espfix: Initialize espfix on secondary CPUs

[Boris Ostrovsky]

On 07/15/2014 11:54 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Boris Ostrovsky
> <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 07/15/2014 11:38 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 08:26:41AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > > > Xen doesn't call start_secondary.
> > > Duh!
> > > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > >
> > > > espfix still doesn't seem to work on Xen (it goes boom in some way that
> > > > I don't understand right now), but initializing all CPUs instead of just
> > > > one of them seems like a good start.
> > > >
> > > > ISTM the right fix is probably to shove the espfix logic into
> > > > native_iret and to tweak the paravirt logic so that native_iret always
> > > > gets invoked.  I suspect that Xen will need its own implementation of
> > > > espfix64 in the hypervisor and that, ultimately, someone may want to
> > > > stop initializing espfix64 at all on Xen guests.
> > > I think just disallowing would be preferrable.
> >
> > I've been looking at sigreturn_64 and it seems to be crashing dom0 (with
> > both mine and your patches). In kprobe_int3_handler().
> You need:
>
> http://lkml.kernel.org/g/c4e339882c121aa76254f2adde3fcbdf502faec2.1405099506.git.luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> The newer version of sigreturn_32 that I pushed is a much better test
> -- it tests the 64-bit cases (yay thunks!) and works on kernels
> without my SS sigcontext fix.

Yes, that does it. At least we don't have yet another failure mode with 
this, which was the biggest concern.

Thanks.

-boris

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