From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
x86@kernel.org, Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>, Juergen Gross <JGross@suse.com>,
Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 4/9] x86/io: Speedup schedule out of I/O bitmap user
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 19:32:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53B49BD3-6F9C-4A78-B203-1BD53034014D@amacapital.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1911090043430.2605@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>
> On Nov 8, 2019, at 3:45 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 8 Nov 2019, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>>> On 11/7/19 6:08 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>> On Thu, 7 Nov 2019, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>>> Just that I can't add the storage to tss_struct due to the VMX insanity of
>>>> setting TSS limit hard to 0x67 on vmexit instead of restoring the host
>>>> value.
>>>
>>> Well, I can. The build bugon in vmx.c is just bogus.
>>
>> SDM vol 3 27.5.2 says the BUILD_BUG_ON is right. Or am I
>> misunderstanding you?
>>
>> I'm reasonably confident that the TSS limit is indeed 0x67 after VM
>> exit, and I wrote the existing code that tries to optimize this to avoid
>> LTR when not needed.
>
> The BUILD_BUG_ON(IO_BITMAP_OFFSET - 1 == 0x67) in the VMX code is bogus in
> two aspects:
>
> 1) This wants to be in generic x86 code
I think disagree. The only thing special about 0x67 is that VMX hard codes it. It’s specifically a VMX-ism. So I think the VMX code should indeed assert that 0x67 is a safe value.
>
> 2) The IO_BITMAP_OFFSET is not the right thing to check because it makes
> asssumptions about the layout of tss_struct. Nothing requires that the
> I/O bitmap is placed right after x86_tss, which is the hardware mandated
> tss structure. It pointlessly makes restrictions on the struct
> tss_struct layout.
I agree with this.
>
> The proper thing to check is:
>
> - Offset of x86_tss in tss_struct is 0
> - Size of x86_tss == 0x68
>
> We already have the page alignment sanity check off TSS in
> cpu_entry_area.c. That's where this should have gone into in the first
> place.
>
> Thanks,
>
> tglx
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-09 3:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-06 19:34 [patch 0/9] x86/iopl: Prevent user space from using CLI/STI with iopl(3) Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-06 19:35 ` [patch 1/9] x86/ptrace: Prevent truncation of bitmap size Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-07 7:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-11-06 19:35 ` [patch 2/9] x86/process: Unify copy_thread_tls() Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-08 22:31 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-11-08 23:43 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-10 12:36 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-10 16:56 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-11-11 8:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-11-06 19:35 ` [patch 3/9] x86/cpu: Unify cpu_init() Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-08 22:34 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-11-06 19:35 ` [patch 4/9] x86/io: Speedup schedule out of I/O bitmap user Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-07 9:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-11-07 14:04 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-07 14:08 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-08 22:41 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-11-08 23:45 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-09 3:32 ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2019-11-10 12:43 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-09 0:24 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-11-06 19:35 ` [patch 5/9] x86/ioport: Reduce ioperm impact for sane usage further Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-07 1:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-07 7:44 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-07 8:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-11-07 9:17 ` Willy Tarreau
2019-11-07 10:00 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-07 10:13 ` Willy Tarreau
2019-11-07 10:19 ` hpa
2019-11-07 10:27 ` Willy Tarreau
2019-11-07 10:50 ` hpa
2019-11-07 12:56 ` Willy Tarreau
2019-11-07 16:45 ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-11-07 16:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-07 16:57 ` Willy Tarreau
2019-11-10 17:17 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-11-07 7:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-11-07 7:45 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-07 8:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-11-07 18:02 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-07 19:24 ` Brian Gerst
2019-11-07 19:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-07 21:00 ` Brian Gerst
2019-11-07 21:32 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-07 23:20 ` hpa
2019-11-07 21:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-08 1:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2019-11-08 2:12 ` Brian Gerst
2019-11-10 17:21 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-11-06 19:35 ` [patch 6/9] x86/iopl: Fixup misleading comment Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-06 19:35 ` [patch 7/9] x86/iopl: Restrict iopl() permission scope Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-07 9:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-11-10 17:26 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-11-10 20:31 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-10 21:05 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-11-10 21:21 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-06 19:35 ` [patch 8/9] x86/iopl: Remove legacy IOPL option Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-07 6:11 ` Jürgen Groß
2019-11-07 6:26 ` hpa
2019-11-07 16:44 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-11-07 9:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-11-06 19:35 ` [patch 9/9] selftests/x86/iopl: Verify that CLI/STI result in #GP Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-07 7:28 ` [patch] x86/iopl: Remove unused local variable, update comments in ksys_ioperm() Ingo Molnar
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