Re: Linux 6.11-rc1

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 11:53:31AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Which makes me think it's asm_exc_int3 just recursively failing.

Sounds like text_poke() going sideways, there's a jump_label fail out
there:

 https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240730132626.GV26599@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

> Let's see it x86 people have some idea, but that
> 
>    restore_all_switch_stack+0x65/0xe6
> 
> and doing an objdump to see the code generation, it is literally here:
> 
>         0f 20 d8                mov    %cr3,%eax
>         0d 00 10 00 00          or     $0x1000,%eax
>         0f 22 d8                mov    %eax,%cr3

That looks like SWITCH_TO_USER_CR3

>         eb 16                   jmp    <restore_all_switch_stack+0x7d>
> 
> with that "jmp" instruction being the restore_all_switch_stack+0x65 address.

Thish would make this BUG_IF_WRONG_CR3, which starts with an ALTERNATIVE
jmp. I think we landed a pile of ALTERNATIVE patches this merge window.

That said, Boris did spend an awful lot of time testing them... but this
is 32bit so who knows how much time that got.