Re: [patch V5 part 3 12/29] x86/entry/common: Provide idtentry_enter/exit()
From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Mon May 11 2020 - 14:42:41 EST
Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 3:59 AM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> >> + * Invoked by all exception/interrupt IDTENTRY handlers which are not
>> >> + * returning through the paranoid exit path (all except NMI, #DF and the IST
>> >> + * variants of #MC and #DB).
>> >
>
>> +void noinstr idtentry_exit(struct pt_regs *regs)
>> +{
>> + lockdep_assert_irqs_disabled();
>> +
>> + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_ENTRY))
>> + WARN_ON_ONCE(!on_thread_stack());
>
> Whoops. After sleeping on this, this is obviously wrong. If this is
> something like a page fault, we can be on an IST or IRQ stack.
> Perhaps the actual condition should be:
>
> WARN_ON_ONCE(!on_thread_stack() && (regs->flags & X86_FLAGS_IF) &&
> preempt_count() == 0);
>
> IOW, the actual condition we want is that, if the idtenter_entry/exit
> code might schedule or if a cond_local_irq_enable() path might
> schedule, we had better be on the correct stack.
>
> Sorry for causing confusion.
Nothing to be sorry about. I could have thought about it myself :)
Let me try again.