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-rw-r--r--arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S15
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h8
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c25
3 files changed, 35 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
index 66350e6a6ca5..e13027247c90 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
@@ -361,6 +361,8 @@ restore_all:
TRACE_IRQS_IRET
restore_all_notrace:
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_ESPFIX32
+ ALTERNATIVE "jmp restore_nocheck", "", X86_BUG_ESPFIX
+
movl PT_EFLAGS(%esp), %eax # mix EFLAGS, SS and CS
/*
* Warning: PT_OLDSS(%esp) contains the wrong/random values if we
@@ -387,19 +389,6 @@ ENTRY(iret_exc )
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_ESPFIX32
ldt_ss:
-#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT
- /*
- * The kernel can't run on a non-flat stack if paravirt mode
- * is active. Rather than try to fixup the high bits of
- * ESP, bypass this code entirely. This may break DOSemu
- * and/or Wine support in a paravirt VM, although the option
- * is still available to implement the setting of the high
- * 16-bits in the INTERRUPT_RETURN paravirt-op.
- */
- cmpl $0, pv_info+PARAVIRT_enabled
- jne restore_nocheck
-#endif
-
/*
* Setup and switch to ESPFIX stack
*
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
index 6663fae71b12..d11a3aaafd96 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
@@ -286,4 +286,12 @@
#define X86_BUG_CLFLUSH_MONITOR X86_BUG(7) /* AAI65, CLFLUSH required before MONITOR */
#define X86_BUG_SYSRET_SS_ATTRS X86_BUG(8) /* SYSRET doesn't fix up SS attrs */
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
+/*
+ * 64-bit kernels don't use X86_BUG_ESPFIX. Make the define conditional
+ * to avoid confusion.
+ */
+#define X86_BUG_ESPFIX X86_BUG(9) /* "" IRET to 16-bit SS corrupts ESP/RSP high bits */
+#endif
+
#endif /* _ASM_X86_CPUFEATURES_H */
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
index 079d83fc6488..d8337f34b5f4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -803,6 +803,31 @@ static void detect_nopl(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
#else
set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_NOPL);
#endif
+
+ /*
+ * ESPFIX is a strange bug. All real CPUs have it. Paravirt
+ * systems that run Linux at CPL > 0 may or may not have the
+ * issue, but, even if they have the issue, there's absolutely
+ * nothing we can do about it because we can't use the real IRET
+ * instruction.
+ *
+ * NB: For the time being, only 32-bit kernels support
+ * X86_BUG_ESPFIX as such. 64-bit kernels directly choose
+ * whether to apply espfix using paravirt hooks. If any
+ * non-paravirt system ever shows up that does *not* have the
+ * ESPFIX issue, we can change this.
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
+#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT
+ do {
+ extern void native_iret(void);
+ if (pv_cpu_ops.iret == native_iret)
+ set_cpu_bug(c, X86_BUG_ESPFIX);
+ } while (0);
+#else
+ set_cpu_bug(c, X86_BUG_ESPFIX);
+#endif
+#endif
}
static void generic_identify(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)