Re: [PATCH 3/6] i386 virtualization - Make ldt a desc struct

[Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>]

Chris Wright wrote:

> * Zachary Amsden (zach@vmware.com) wrote:
>  
>
> > Several reviewers noticed that initialization and destruction of the
> > mm->context is unnecessary, since the entire MM struct is zeroed on
> > allocation anyways.
> >    
>
> well, on fork it should be just shallow copied rather than zeroed.
>  

Right you are.  That turned out to be a really bad idea (TM).  Updated 
my ldt test and got the expected panic with the BUG_ON left in.

Zach

/*
 * Copyright (c) 2005, Zachary Amsden (zach@vmware.com)
 * This is licensed under the GPL.
 */

#include <stdio.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <asm/ldt.h>
#include <asm/segment.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <sched.h>
#define __KERNEL__
#include <asm/page.h>

/*
 * Spin modifying LDT entry 1 to get contention on the mm->context
 * semaphore.
 */
void evil_child(void *addr)
{
	struct user_desc desc;

	while (1) {
		desc.entry_number = 1;
		desc.base_addr = addr;
		desc.limit = 1;
		desc.seg_32bit = 1;
		desc.contents = MODIFY_LDT_CONTENTS_CODE;
		desc.read_exec_only = 0;
		desc.limit_in_pages = 1;
		desc.seg_not_present = 0;
		desc.useable = 1;
		if (modify_ldt(1, &desc, sizeof(desc)) != 0) {
			perror("modify_ldt");
			abort();
		}
	}
	exit(0);
}

void catch_sig(int signo, struct sigcontext ctx)
{
	return;
}

void main(void)
{
        struct user_desc desc;
        char *code;
        unsigned long long tsc;
	char *stack;
	pid_t child; 
	int i;
	unsigned long long lasttsc = 0;

        code = (char *)mmap(0, 8192, PROT_EXEC|PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
                                 MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);

	/* Test 1 - CODE, 32-BIT, 2 page limit */
        desc.entry_number = 0;
        desc.base_addr = code;
        desc.limit = 1;
        desc.seg_32bit = 1;
        desc.contents = MODIFY_LDT_CONTENTS_CODE;
        desc.read_exec_only = 0;
        desc.limit_in_pages = 1;
        desc.seg_not_present = 0;
        desc.useable = 1;
        if (modify_ldt(1, &desc, sizeof(desc)) != 0) {
                perror("modify_ldt");
		abort();
        }
        printf("INFO: code base is 0x%08x\n", (unsigned)code);
        code[0x0ffe] = 0x0f;  /* rdtsc */
        code[0x0fff] = 0x31;
        code[0x1000] = 0xcb;  /* lret */
        __asm__ __volatile("lcall $7,$0xffe" : "=A" (tsc));
        printf("INFO: TSC is 0x%016llx\n", tsc);

	/*
	 * Fork an evil child that shares the same MM context
	 */
	stack = malloc(8192);
	child = clone(evil_child, stack, CLONE_VM, 0xb0b0);
	if (child == -1) {
		perror("clone");
		abort();
	}

	/* Test 2 - CODE, 32-BIT, 4097 byte limit */
        desc.entry_number = 512;
        desc.base_addr = code;
        desc.limit = 4096;
        desc.seg_32bit = 1;
        desc.contents = MODIFY_LDT_CONTENTS_CODE;
        desc.read_exec_only = 0;
        desc.limit_in_pages = 0;
        desc.seg_not_present = 0;
        desc.useable = 1;
        if (modify_ldt(1, &desc, sizeof(desc)) != 0) {
                perror("modify_ldt");
		abort();
        }
        code[0x0ffe] = 0x0f;  /* rdtsc */
        code[0x0fff] = 0x31;
        code[0x1000] = 0xcb;  /* lret */
        __asm__ __volatile("lcall $0x1007,$0xffe" : "=A" (tsc));

	/*
	 * Test 3 - CODE, 32-BIT, maximal LDT.  Race against evil
	 * child while taking debug traps on LDT CS.
	 */
	for (i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
		signal(SIGTRAP, catch_sig);
		desc.entry_number = 8191;
		desc.base_addr = code;
		desc.limit = 4097;
		desc.seg_32bit = 1;
		desc.contents = MODIFY_LDT_CONTENTS_CODE;
		desc.read_exec_only = 0;
		desc.limit_in_pages = 0;
		desc.seg_not_present = 0;
		desc.useable = 1;
		if (modify_ldt(1, &desc, sizeof(desc)) != 0) {
			perror("modify_ldt");
			abort();
		}
		code[0x0ffe] = 0x0f;  /* rdtsc */
		code[0x0fff] = 0x31;
		code[0x1000] = 0xcc;  /* int3 */
        	code[0x1001] = 0xcb;  /* lret */
		__asm__ __volatile("lcall $0xffff,$0xffe" : "=A" (tsc));
		if (tsc < lasttsc) {
			printf("WARNING: TSC went backwards\n");
		}
		lasttsc = tsc;
	}
	if (kill(child, SIGTERM) != 0) {
		perror("kill");
		abort();
	}
	if (fork() == 0) {
		printf("PASS: LDT code segment\n");
	}
}