Patch "x86/asm/irq: Stop relying on magic JMP behavior for early_idt_handlers" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

x86/asm/irq: Stop relying on magic JMP behavior for early_idt_handlers

to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
x86-asm-irq-stop-relying-on-magic-jmp-behavior-for-early_idt_handlers.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 16:15:47 -0700
Subject: x86/asm/irq: Stop relying on magic JMP behavior for early_idt_handlers

From: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>

commit 425be5679fd292a3c36cb1fe423086708a99f11a upstream.

The early_idt_handlers asm code generates an array of entry points spaced nine bytes apart. It's not really clear from that code or from the places that reference it what's going on, and the code only works in the first place because GAS never generates two-byte JMP instructions when jumping to global labels.

Clean up the code to generate the correct array stride (member size) explicitly. This should be considerably more robust against screw-ups, as GAS will warn if a .fill directive has a negative count. Using '. =' to advance would have been even more robust (it would generate an actual error if it tried to move backwards), but it would pad with nulls, confusing anyone who tries to disassemble the code. The new scheme should be much clearer to future readers.

While we're at it, improve the comments and rename the array and common code.

Binutils may start relaxing jumps to non-weak labels. If so, this change will fix our build, and we may need to backport this change.

Before, on x86_64:

0000000000000000 <early_idt_handlers>:

     0:   6a 00                   pushq  $0x0
     2:   6a 00                   pushq  $0x0
     4:   e9 00 00 00 00          jmpq   9 <early_idt_handlers+0x9>
                          5: R_X86_64_PC32        early_idt_handler-0x4
  ...
    48:   66 90                   xchg   %ax,%ax
    4a:   6a 08                   pushq  $0x8
    4c:   e9 00 00 00 00          jmpq   51 <early_idt_handlers+0x51>
                          4d: R_X86_64_PC32       early_idt_handler-0x4
  ...
   117:   6a 00                   pushq  $0x0
   119:   6a 1f                   pushq  $0x1f
   11b:   e9 00 00 00 00          jmpq   120 <early_idt_handler>
                          11c: R_X86_64_PC32      early_idt_handler-0x4

After:

0000000000000000 <early_idt_handler_array>:

     0:   6a 00                   pushq  $0x0
     2:   6a 00                   pushq  $0x0
     4:   e9 14 01 00 00          jmpq   11d <early_idt_handler_common>
  ...
    48:   6a 08                   pushq  $0x8
    4a:   e9 d1 00 00 00          jmpq   120 <early_idt_handler_common>
    4f:   cc                      int3
    50:   cc                      int3
  ...
   117:   6a 00                   pushq  $0x0
   119:   6a 1f                   pushq  $0x1f
   11b:   eb 03                   jmp    120 <early_idt_handler_common>
   11d:   cc                      int3
   11e:   cc                      int3
   11f:   cc                      int3

---
 arch/x86/include/asm/segment.h |   15 +++++++++++++--
 arch/x86/kernel/head64.c       |    2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S      |   33 ++++++++++++++++++---------------
 arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S      |   20 +++++++++++---------
 4 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

@@ -212,10 +212,21 @@
 #define TLS_SIZE (GDT_ENTRY_TLS_ENTRIES * 8)
 
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
+
+/*
+ * early_idt_handler_array is an array of entry points referenced in the
+ * early IDT.  For simplicity, it's a real array with one entry point
+ * every nine bytes.  That leaves room for an optional 'push $0' if the
+ * vector has no error code (two bytes), a 'push $vector_number' (two
+ * bytes), and a jump to the common entry code (up to five bytes).
+ */
+#define EARLY_IDT_HANDLER_SIZE 9
+
 #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
-extern const char early_idt_handlers[NUM_EXCEPTION_VECTORS][2+2+5];
+
+extern const char early_idt_handler_array[NUM_EXCEPTION_VECTORS][EARLY_IDT_HANDLER_SIZE];
 #ifdef CONFIG_TRACING
-#define trace_early_idt_handlers early_idt_handlers
+# define trace_early_idt_handler_array early_idt_handler_array
 #endif
 
 /*

@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ asmlinkage void __init x86_64_start_kern
 	clear_bss();
 
 	for (i = 0; i < NUM_EXCEPTION_VECTORS; i++)
-		set_intr_gate(i, early_idt_handlers[i]);
+		set_intr_gate(i, early_idt_handler_array[i]);
 	load_idt((const struct desc_ptr *)&idt_descr);
 
 	copy_bootdata(__va(real_mode_data));

@@ -477,21 +477,22 @@ is486:
 __INIT
 setup_once:
 	/*
-	 * Set up a idt with 256 entries pointing to ignore_int,
-	 * interrupt gates. It doesn't actually load idt - that needs
-	 * to be done on each CPU. Interrupts are enabled elsewhere,
-	 * when we can be relatively sure everything is ok.
+	 * Set up a idt with 256 interrupt gates that push zero if there
+	 * is no error code and then jump to early_idt_handler_common.
+	 * It doesn't actually load the idt - that needs to be done on
+	 * each CPU. Interrupts are enabled elsewhere, when we can be
+	 * relatively sure everything is ok.
 	 */
 
 	movl $idt_table,%edi
-	movl $early_idt_handlers,%eax
+	movl $early_idt_handler_array,%eax
 	movl $NUM_EXCEPTION_VECTORS,%ecx
 1:
 	movl %eax,(%edi)
 	movl %eax,4(%edi)
 	/* interrupt gate, dpl=0, present */
 	movl $(0x8E000000 + __KERNEL_CS),2(%edi)
-	addl $9,%eax
+	addl $EARLY_IDT_HANDLER_SIZE,%eax
 	addl $8,%edi
 	loop 1b
 

@@ -523,26 +524,28 @@ setup_once:
 	andl $0,setup_once_ref	/* Once is enough, thanks */
 	ret
 
-ENTRY(early_idt_handlers)
+ENTRY(early_idt_handler_array)
 	# 36(%esp) %eflags
 	# 32(%esp) %cs
 	# 28(%esp) %eip
 	# 24(%rsp) error code
 	i = 0
 	.rept NUM_EXCEPTION_VECTORS
-	.if (EXCEPTION_ERRCODE_MASK >> i) & 1
-	ASM_NOP2
-	.else
+	.ifeq (EXCEPTION_ERRCODE_MASK >> i) & 1
 	pushl $0		# Dummy error code, to make stack frame uniform
 	.endif
 	pushl $i		# 20(%esp) Vector number
-	jmp early_idt_handler
+	jmp early_idt_handler_common
 	i = i + 1
+	.fill early_idt_handler_array + i*EARLY_IDT_HANDLER_SIZE - ., 1, 0xcc
 	.endr
-ENDPROC(early_idt_handlers)
+ENDPROC(early_idt_handler_array)
 	
-	/* This is global to keep gas from relaxing the jumps */
-ENTRY(early_idt_handler)
+early_idt_handler_common:
+	/*
+	 * The stack is the hardware frame, an error code or zero, and the
+	 * vector number.
+	 */
 	cld
 
 	cmpl $2,(%esp)		# X86_TRAP_NMI

@@ -602,7 +605,7 @@ ex_entry:
 is_nmi:
 	addl $8,%esp		/* drop vector number and error code */
 	iret
-ENDPROC(early_idt_handler)
+ENDPROC(early_idt_handler_common)
 
 /* This is the default interrupt "handler" :-) */
 	ALIGN

@@ -321,26 +321,28 @@ bad_address:
 	jmp bad_address
 
 	__INIT
-	.globl early_idt_handlers
-early_idt_handlers:
+ENTRY(early_idt_handler_array)
 	# 104(%rsp) %rflags
 	#  96(%rsp) %cs
 	#  88(%rsp) %rip
 	#  80(%rsp) error code
 	i = 0
 	.rept NUM_EXCEPTION_VECTORS
-	.if (EXCEPTION_ERRCODE_MASK >> i) & 1
-	ASM_NOP2
-	.else
+	.ifeq (EXCEPTION_ERRCODE_MASK >> i) & 1
 	pushq $0		# Dummy error code, to make stack frame uniform
 	.endif
 	pushq $i		# 72(%rsp) Vector number
-	jmp early_idt_handler
+	jmp early_idt_handler_common
 	i = i + 1
+	.fill early_idt_handler_array + i*EARLY_IDT_HANDLER_SIZE - ., 1, 0xcc
 	.endr
+ENDPROC(early_idt_handler_array)
 
-/* This is global to keep gas from relaxing the jumps */
-ENTRY(early_idt_handler)
+early_idt_handler_common:
+	/*
+	 * The stack is the hardware frame, an error code or zero, and the
+	 * vector number.
+	 */
 	cld
 
 	cmpl $2,(%rsp)		# X86_TRAP_NMI

@@ -412,7 +414,7 @@ ENTRY(early_idt_handler)
 is_nmi:
 	addq $16,%rsp		# drop vector number and error code
 	INTERRUPT_RETURN
-ENDPROC(early_idt_handler)
+ENDPROC(early_idt_handler_common)
 
 	__INITDATA
 

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.14/x86-asm-irq-stop-relying-on-magic-jmp-behavior-for-early_idt_handlers.patch --
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