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2012-04-20x86, extable: Switch to relative exception table entriesH. Peter Anvin
Switch to using relative exception table entries on x86. On i386, this has the advantage that the exception table entries don't need to be relocated; on x86-64 this means the exception table entries take up only half the space. In either case, a 32-bit delta is sufficient, as the range of kernel code addresses is limited. Since part of the goal is to avoid needing to adjust the entries when the kernel is relocated, the old trick of using addresses in the NULL pointer range to indicate uaccess_err no longer works (and unlike RISC architectures we can't use a flag bit); instead use an delta just below +2G to indicate these special entries. The reach is still limited to a single instruction. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA%2B55aFyijf43qSu3N9nWHEBwaGbb7T2Oq9A=9EyR=Jtyqfq_cQ@mail.gmail.com
2012-04-19x86, extable: Add early_fixup_exception()H. Peter Anvin
Add a restricted version of fixup_exception() to be used during early boot only. In particular, this doesn't support the try..catch variant since we may not have a thread_info set up yet. This relies on the exception table being sorted already at build time. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1334794610-5546-1-git-send-email-hpa@zytor.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-12-05x86-64: Set siginfo and context on vsyscall emulation faultsAndy Lutomirski
To make this work, we teach the page fault handler how to send signals on failed uaccess. This only works for user addresses (kernel addresses will never hit the page fault handler in the first place), so we need to generate signals for those separately. This gets the tricky case right: if the user buffer spans multiple pages and only the second page is invalid, we set cr2 and si_addr correctly. UML relies on this behavior to "fault in" pages as needed. We steal a bit from thread_info.uaccess_err to enable this. Before this change, uaccess_err was a 32-bit boolean value. This fixes issues with UML when vsyscall=emulate. Reported-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4c8f91de7ec5cd2ef0f59521a04e1015f11e42b4.1320712291.git.luto@amacapital.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-12x86, 64-bit: Move K8 B step iret fixup to fault entry asmBrian Gerst
Move the handling of truncated %rip from an iret fault to the fault entry path. This allows x86-64 to use the standard search_extable() function. Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> LKML-Reference: <1255357103-5418-1-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-23x86: uaccess: introduce try and catch frameworkHiroshi Shimamoto
Impact: introduce new uaccess exception handling framework Introduce {get|put}_user_try and {get|put}_user_catch as new uaccess exception handling framework. {get|put}_user_try begins exception block and {get|put}_user_catch(err) ends the block and gets err if an exception occured in {get|put}_user_ex() in the block. The exception is stored thread_info->uaccess_err. The example usage of this framework is below; int func() { int err = 0; get_user_try { get_user_ex(...); get_user_ex(...); : } get_user_catch(err); return err; } Note: get_user_ex() is not clear the value when an exception occurs, it's different from the behavior of __get_user(), but I think it doesn't matter. Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2008-01-30x86: unify extable_{32|64}.cHarvey Harrison
Introduce fixup_exception() on 64-bit and use it in kprobes to eliminate an #ifdef. Only 64-bit needs search_extable() due to a stepping bug. Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>