sched/x86: Save [ER]FLAGS on context switch
authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:30:52 +0000 (10:30 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Wed, 3 Apr 2019 07:36:27 +0000 (09:36 +0200)
commit6690e86be83ac75832e461c141055b5d601c0a6d
treeac9835c1ef68ed66a41977c0f7f9f788a0b6a6a4
parent5e7a8ca319268a70a6c7c3c1fde5bea38e1e5539
sched/x86: Save [ER]FLAGS on context switch

Effectively reverts 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.

Reported-by: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: 5b24a7a2aa20 ("Add 'unsafe' user access functions for batched accesses")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h
arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c