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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>2015-09-20 16:32:05 -0700
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2015-09-22 22:40:36 +0200
commit83c133cf11fb0e68a51681447e372489f052d40e (patch)
tree216347000c44ee61270ab02cba8a838b01ee3f4f /arch
parentfc57a7c68020dcf954428869eafd934c0ab1536f (diff)
x86/nmi/64: Fix a paravirt stack-clobbering bug in the NMI code
The NMI entry code that switches to the normal kernel stack needs to be very careful not to clobber any extra stack slots on the NMI stack. The code is fine under the assumption that SWAPGS is just a normal instruction, but that assumption isn't really true. Use SWAPGS_UNSAFE_STACK instead. This is part of a fix for some random crashes that Sasha saw. Fixes: 9b6e6a8334d5 ("x86/nmi/64: Switch stacks on userspace NMI entry") Reported-and-tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/974bc40edffdb5c2950a5c4977f821a446b76178.1442791737.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
index 404ca97c4715..055a01de7c8d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
@@ -1190,9 +1190,12 @@ ENTRY(nmi)
* we don't want to enable interrupts, because then we'll end
* up in an awkward situation in which IRQs are on but NMIs
* are off.
+ *
+ * We also must not push anything to the stack before switching
+ * stacks lest we corrupt the "NMI executing" variable.
*/
- SWAPGS
+ SWAPGS_UNSAFE_STACK
cld
movq %rsp, %rdx
movq PER_CPU_VAR(cpu_current_top_of_stack), %rsp