Re: [RFD] x86: The future of MPX

[Eric W. Biederman]

Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 2:18 AM Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> > I just tried the MPX testcases with the latest kernel:
>> 
>> >   deimos:~/tip/tools/testing/selftests/x86> ./mpx-mini-test_64
>> 
>> They need to be run as root. They try to access
>> 
>>      /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/set_ftrace_pid
>>      /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
>> 
>> and that's root-only.
>
> Indeed - but note that they are crashing as root as well here:
>
>   root@deimos:/home/mingo/tip/tools/testing/selftests/x86# ./mpx-mini-test_64 
>   [...]
>   Aborted (core dumped)
>
> ... because I don't even have /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/set_ftrace_pid... :-/
>
> That's despite having ftrace enabled.
>
> After some digging I found out that 'set_ftrace_pid' is dependent on 
> CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACING=y (not just CONFIG_TRACING=y), which I didn't
> have enabled on this kernel.
>
> After enabling it I got the 64-bit testcase to work:
>
>   #
>   ...
>   ./mpx-mini-test_64 completed successfully
>
> But the 32-bit testcase is erroring out:
>
>   root@deimos:/home/mingo/tip/tools/testing/selftests/x86# ./mpx-mini-test_32 
>   XSAVE is supported by HW & OS
>   XSAVE processor supported state mask: 0x21f
>   XSAVE OS supported state mask: 0x21f
>    BNDREGS: size: 64 user: 1 supervisor: 0 aligned: 0
>     BNDCSR: size: 64 user: 1 supervisor: 0 aligned: 0
>   executing unmaptest
>   mpx dig (  1) complete, SUCCESS (       0 /    0)
>   #BR status == 2, missing bounds table,kernel should have handled!!
>
> v4.17-rc2 based kernel, so it should have the latest MPX code.

If you remove this which tree will this be going into?

I have some refactoring and cleanups of the x86 siginfo code I am
hoping to get in later this development cycle and part of that was
refactoring the mpx code so it works more like everything else.

If the codes away I can just that part of the patchset.

Eric