From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] KVM: rseq: Update rseq when processing NOTIFY_RESUME on xfer to KVM guest
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2021 14:38:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YTd5Z91j9N2LuuIr@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <425456d3-4772-2a1b-9cf3-a5b750b95c2e@redhat.com>
On Mon, Sep 06, 2021, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 20/08/21 20:51, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > > Ah, or is it the case that rseq_cs is non-NULL if and only if userspace is in an
> > > rseq critical section, and because syscalls in critical sections are illegal, by
> > > definition clearing rseq_cs is a nop unless userspace is misbehaving.
> > Not quite, as I described above. But we want it to stay set so the CONFIG_DEBUG_RSEQ
> > code executed when returning from ioctl to userspace will be able to validate that
> > it is not nested within a rseq critical section.
> >
> > > If that's true, what about explicitly checking that at NOTIFY_RESUME? Or is it
> > > not worth the extra code to detect an error that will likely be caught anyways?
> > The error will indeed already be caught on return from ioctl to userspace, so I
> > don't see any added value in duplicating this check.
>
> Sean, can you send a v2 (even for this patch only would be okay)?
Made it all the way to v3 while you were out :-)
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210901203030.1292304-1-seanjc@google.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-07 14:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-18 0:12 [PATCH 0/5] KVM: rseq: Fix and a test for a KVM+rseq bug Sean Christopherson
2021-08-18 0:12 ` [PATCH 1/5] KVM: rseq: Update rseq when processing NOTIFY_RESUME on xfer to KVM guest Sean Christopherson
2021-08-19 21:39 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-08-19 23:48 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-08-20 18:51 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-08-20 22:26 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-09-06 10:28 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-09-07 14:38 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2021-08-18 0:12 ` [PATCH 2/5] entry: rseq: Call rseq_handle_notify_resume() in tracehook_notify_resume() Sean Christopherson
2021-08-19 21:41 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-08-18 0:12 ` [PATCH 3/5] tools: Move x86 syscall number fallbacks to .../uapi/ Sean Christopherson
2021-08-18 0:12 ` [PATCH 4/5] KVM: selftests: Add a test for KVM_RUN+rseq to detect task migration bugs Sean Christopherson
2021-08-19 21:52 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-08-19 23:33 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-08-20 18:31 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-08-20 22:25 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-08-18 0:12 ` [PATCH 5/5] KVM: selftests: Remove __NR_userfaultfd syscall fallback Sean Christopherson
2021-09-22 14:12 ` [PATCH 0/5] KVM: rseq: Fix and a test for a KVM+rseq bug Paolo Bonzini
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