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 Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 1/3] x86/ldt: Make modify_ldt synchronous
 
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, 	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2015 00:13:23 -0400Cc: "security@xxxxxxxxxx" <security@xxxxxxxxxx>,	Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>,	X86 ML <x86@xxxxxxxxxx>, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,	stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,	Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>,	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>Delivery-date: Sat, 25 Jul 2015 04:14:48 +0000List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xen.org> 
 
On 07/22/2015 06:20 PM, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
 
On 07/22/2015 03:23 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
 
+    error = -ENOMEM;
+    new_ldt = alloc_ldt_struct(newsize);
+    if (!new_ldt)
          goto out_unlock;
-    }
  -    fill_ldt(&ldt, &ldt_info);
-    if (oldmode)
-        ldt.avl = 0;
+    if (old_ldt) {
+        memcpy(new_ldt->entries, old_ldt->entries,
+               oldsize * LDT_ENTRY_SIZE);
+    }
+    memset(new_ldt->entries + oldsize * LDT_ENTRY_SIZE, 0,
+           (newsize - oldsize) * LDT_ENTRY_SIZE);
 
We need to zero out full page (probably better in alloc_ldt_struct() 
with vmzalloc/__GFP_ZERO) --- Xen checks whole page that is assigned 
to  G/LDT and gets unhappy if an invalid descriptor is found there. 
This fixes one problem. There is something else that Xen gets upset 
about, I haven't figured what it is yet (and I am out tomorrow so it 
may need to wait until Friday). 
 
What I thought was another problem turned out not to be one so both 64- 
and 32-bit tests passed on 64-bit PV (when allocated LDT is zeroed out) 
However, on 32-bit kernel the test is failing multicpu test, I don't 
know yet what it is. 
-boris
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