Instead of playing stupid games with IST stacks, fully disallow #DB
during NMIs. There is absolutely no reason to allow them, and killing
this saves a heap of trouble.
We already disallow #DB on noinstr and CEA, so we can't get #DB before
this, and this ensures we can't get it after this either.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org>
---
arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c | 55 ++------------------------------------------------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c
@@ -474,40 +474,7 @@ enum nmi_states {
};
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(enum nmi_states, nmi_state);
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, nmi_cr2);
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
-/*
- * In x86_64, we need to handle breakpoint -> NMI -> breakpoint. Without
- * some care, the inner breakpoint will clobber the outer breakpoint's
- * stack.
- *
- * If a breakpoint is being processed, and the debug stack is being
- * used, if an NMI comes in and also hits a breakpoint, the stack
- * pointer will be set to the same fixed address as the breakpoint that
- * was interrupted, causing that stack to be corrupted. To handle this
- * case, check if the stack that was interrupted is the debug stack, and
- * if so, change the IDT so that new breakpoints will use the current
- * stack and not switch to the fixed address. On return of the NMI,
- * switch back to the original IDT.
- */
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, update_debug_stack);
-
-static noinstr bool is_debug_stack(unsigned long addr)
-{
- struct cea_exception_stacks *cs = __this_cpu_read(cea_exception_stacks);
- unsigned long top = CEA_ESTACK_TOP(cs, DB);
- unsigned long bot = CEA_ESTACK_BOT(cs, DB1);
-
- if (__this_cpu_read(debug_stack_usage))
- return true;
- /*
- * Note, this covers the guard page between DB and DB1 as well to
- * avoid two checks. But by all means @addr can never point into
- * the guard page.
- */
- return addr >= bot && addr < top;
-}
-#endif
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, nmi_dr7);
DEFINE_IDTENTRY_NMI(exc_nmi)
{
@@ -522,18 +489,7 @@ DEFINE_IDTENTRY_NMI(exc_nmi)
this_cpu_write(nmi_cr2, read_cr2());
nmi_restart:
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
- /*
- * If we interrupted a breakpoint, it is possible that
- * the nmi handler will have breakpoints too. We need to
- * change the IDT such that breakpoints that happen here
- * continue to use the NMI stack.
- */
- if (unlikely(is_debug_stack(regs->sp))) {
- debug_stack_set_zero();
- this_cpu_write(update_debug_stack, 1);
- }
-#endif
+ this_cpu_write(nmi_dr7, local_db_save());
nmi_enter();
@@ -544,12 +500,7 @@ DEFINE_IDTENTRY_NMI(exc_nmi)
nmi_exit();
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
- if (unlikely(this_cpu_read(update_debug_stack))) {
- debug_stack_reset();
- this_cpu_write(update_debug_stack, 0);
- }
-#endif
+ local_db_restore(this_cpu_read(nmi_dr7));
if (unlikely(this_cpu_read(nmi_cr2) != read_cr2()))
write_cr2(this_cpu_read(nmi_cr2));
