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x86/entry, selftests: Further improve user entry sanity checks
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Chasing down a Xen bug caused me to realize that the new entry sanity
checks are still fairly weak.  Add some more checks.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/881de09e786ab93ce56ee4a2437ba2c308afe7a9.1593795633.git.luto@kernel.org
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amluto authored and Thomas Gleixner committed Jul 4, 2020
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19 changes: 19 additions & 0 deletions arch/x86/entry/common.c
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static void check_user_regs(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_ENTRY)) {
/*
* Make sure that the entry code gave us a sensible EFLAGS
* register. Native because we want to check the actual CPU
* state, not the interrupt state as imagined by Xen.
*/
unsigned long flags = native_save_fl();
WARN_ON_ONCE(flags & (X86_EFLAGS_AC | X86_EFLAGS_DF |
X86_EFLAGS_NT));

/* We think we came from user mode. Make sure pt_regs agrees. */
WARN_ON_ONCE(!user_mode(regs));

/*
* All entries from user mode (except #DF) should be on the
* normal thread stack and should have user pt_regs in the
* correct location.
*/
WARN_ON_ONCE(!on_thread_stack());
WARN_ON_ONCE(regs != task_pt_regs(current));
}
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bool noinstr idtentry_enter_cond_rcu(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
if (user_mode(regs)) {
check_user_regs(regs);
enter_from_user_mode();
return false;
}
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*/
void noinstr idtentry_enter_user(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
check_user_regs(regs);
enter_from_user_mode();
}

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11 changes: 11 additions & 0 deletions tools/testing/selftests/x86/syscall_nt.c
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printf("[RUN]\tSet NT|AC|TF and issue a syscall\n");
do_it(X86_EFLAGS_NT | X86_EFLAGS_AC | X86_EFLAGS_TF);

/*
* Now try DF. This is evil and it's plausible that we will crash
* glibc, but glibc would have to do something rather surprising
* for this to happen.
*/
printf("[RUN]\tSet DF and issue a syscall\n");
do_it(X86_EFLAGS_DF);

printf("[RUN]\tSet TF|DF and issue a syscall\n");
do_it(X86_EFLAGS_TF | X86_EFLAGS_DF);

return nerrs == 0 ? 0 : 1;
}

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