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author | Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> | 2015-07-15 10:29:35 -0700 |
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committer | Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> | 2015-08-25 16:56:58 +0200 |
commit | e0de15fc45a83f94d1ef578f54b427b86a33ab21 (patch) | |
tree | e921cde405a8d50a534b9a3cfdde6420ebf86093 /arch/s390/include/asm/barrier.h | |
parent | 3682103fe7e9170cfb806b7ec9dcb3008db51443 (diff) |
x86/nmi/64: Switch stacks on userspace NMI entry
commit 9b6e6a8334d56354853f9c255d1395c2ba570e0a upstream.
Returning to userspace is tricky: IRET can fail, and ESPFIX can
rearrange the stack prior to IRET.
The NMI nesting fixup relies on a precise stack layout and
atomic IRET. Rather than trying to teach the NMI nesting fixup
to handle ESPFIX and failed IRET, punt: run NMIs that came from
user mode on the normal kernel stack.
This will make some nested NMIs visible to C code, but the C
code is okay with that.
As a side effect, this should speed up perf: it eliminates an
RDMSR when NMIs come from user mode.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
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