Subject: [PATCH] sched/x86: Save [ER]FLAGS on context switch

From: Peter Zijlstra <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 11:14:29 +0100

On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 02:49:47PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:

> Do we need to backport this thing?

Possibly, just to be safe.

> The problem can’t be too widespread or we would have heard of it before.

Yes, so far we've been lucky.

---
Subject: sched/x86: Save [ER]FLAGS on context switch
From: Peter Zijlstra <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu Feb 14 10:30:52 CET 2019

Effectively revert commit:

  2c7577a75837 ("sched/x86_64: Don't save flags on context switch")

Specifically because SMAP uses FLAGS.AC which invalidates the claim
that the kernel has clean flags.

In particular; while preemption from interrupt return is fine (the
IRET frame on the exception stack contains FLAGS) it breaks any code
that does synchonous scheduling, including preempt_enable().

This has become a significant issue ever since commit:

  5b24a7a2aa20 ("Add 'unsafe' user access functions for batched accesses")

provided for means of having 'normal' C code between STAC / CLAC,
exposing the FLAGS.AC state. So far this hasn't led to trouble,
however fix it before it comes apart.

Fixes: 5b24a7a2aa20 ("Add 'unsafe' user access functions for batched accesses")
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email-masked]>
Reported-by: Julien Thierry <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email-masked]>
---
 arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S        |    2 ++
 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S        |    2 ++
 arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h |    1 +
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
@@ -650,6 +650,7 @@ ENTRY(__switch_to_asm)
 	pushl	%ebx
 	pushl	%edi
 	pushl	%esi
+	pushfl
 
 	/* switch stack */
 	movl	%esp, TASK_threadsp(%eax)
@@ -672,6 +673,7 @@ ENTRY(__switch_to_asm)
 #endif
 
 	/* restore callee-saved registers */
+	popfl
 	popl	%esi
 	popl	%edi
 	popl	%ebx
--- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
@@ -291,6 +291,7 @@ ENTRY(__switch_to_asm)
 	pushq	%r13
 	pushq	%r14
 	pushq	%r15
+	pushfq
 
 	/* switch stack */
 	movq	%rsp, TASK_threadsp(%rdi)
@@ -313,6 +314,7 @@ ENTRY(__switch_to_asm)
 #endif
 
 	/* restore callee-saved registers */
+	popfq
 	popq	%r15
 	popq	%r14
 	popq	%r13
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ asmlinkage void ret_from_fork(void);
  * order of the fields must match the code in __switch_to_asm().
  */
 struct inactive_task_frame {
+	unsigned long flags;
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
 	unsigned long r15;
 	unsigned long r14;

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