From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
To: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
kernel@collabora.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 7/9] x86: Use current USER_CS to setup correct context on vmx entry
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 14:52:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALCETrW74MjC2-MRkRrp3uGOhapH_1zG5GCBkPsLFXs+jPXNOg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201001205819.27879-8-krisman@collabora.com>
On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 1:59 PM Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
<krisman@collabora.com> wrote:
>
> vmx_prepare_switch_to_guest shouldn't use is_64bit_mm, which has a
> very specific use in uprobes. Use the user_64bit_mode helper instead.
> This reduces the usage of is_64bit_mm, which is awkward, since it relies
> on the personality at load time, which is fine for uprobes, but doesn't
> seem fine here.
>
> I tested this by running VMs with 64 and 32 bits payloads from 64/32
> programs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
> index 7b2a068f08c1..b5aafd9e5f5d 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
> @@ -1172,7 +1172,7 @@ void vmx_prepare_switch_to_guest(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> savesegment(es, host_state->es_sel);
>
> gs_base = cpu_kernelmode_gs_base(cpu);
> - if (likely(is_64bit_mm(current->mm))) {
> + if (likely(user_64bit_mode(current_pt_regs()))) {
> current_save_fsgs();
> fs_sel = current->thread.fsindex;
> gs_sel = current->thread.gsindex;
I disagree with this one. This whole code path is nonsense. Can you
just remove the condition entirely and use the 64-bit path
unconditionally?
]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-01 21:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-01 20:58 [PATCH v2 0/9] Reclaim TIF_IA32 and TIF_X32 Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-10-01 20:58 ` [PATCH v2 1/9] x86: events: Avoid TIF_IA32 when checking 64bit mode Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-10-01 20:58 ` [PATCH v2 2/9] x86: Simplify compat syscall userspace allocation Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-10-01 20:58 ` [PATCH v2 3/9] x86: oprofile: Avoid TIF_IA32 when checking 64bit mode Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-10-01 20:58 ` [PATCH v2 4/9] x86: elf: Use e_machine to choose DLINFO in compat Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-10-01 21:46 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-10-01 20:58 ` [PATCH v2 5/9] x86: elf: Use e_machine to select start_thread for x32 Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-10-01 21:49 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-10-01 20:58 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] x86: elf: Use e_machine to select setup_additional_pages " Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-10-01 21:50 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-10-01 20:58 ` [PATCH v2 7/9] x86: Use current USER_CS to setup correct context on vmx entry Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-10-01 21:52 ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2020-10-02 22:40 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-10-02 23:11 ` Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-10-03 0:15 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-10-03 23:04 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-10-05 18:56 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-10-05 19:54 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-10-01 20:58 ` [PATCH v2 8/9] x86: Convert mmu context ia32_compat into a proper flags field Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-10-01 22:09 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-10-01 20:58 ` [PATCH v2 9/9] x86: Reclaim TIF_IA32 and TIF_X32 Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
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