// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only /* * sysret_ss_attrs.c - test that syscalls return valid hidden SS attributes * Copyright (c) 2015 Andrew Lutomirski * * On AMD CPUs, SYSRET can return with a valid SS descriptor with with * the hidden attributes set to an unusable state. Make sure the kernel * doesn't let this happen. */ #define _GNU_SOURCE #include <stdlib.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> #include <sys/mman.h> #include <err.h> #include <stddef.h> #include <stdbool.h> #include <pthread.h> static void *threadproc(void *ctx) { /* * Do our best to cause sleeps on this CPU to exit the kernel and * re-enter with SS = 0. */ while (true) ; return NULL; } #ifdef __x86_64__ extern unsigned long call32_from_64(void *stack, void (*function)(void)); asm (".pushsection .text\n\t" ".code32\n\t" "test_ss:\n\t" "pushl $0\n\t" "popl %eax\n\t" "ret\n\t" ".code64"); extern void test_ss(void); #endif int main() { /* * Start a busy-looping thread on the same CPU we're on. * For simplicity, just stick everything to CPU 0. This will * fail in some containers, but that's probably okay. */ cpu_set_t cpuset; CPU_ZERO(&cpuset); CPU_SET(0, &cpuset); if (sched_setaffinity(0, sizeof(cpuset), &cpuset) != 0) printf("[WARN]\tsched_setaffinity failed\n"); pthread_t thread; if (pthread_create(&thread, 0, threadproc, 0) != 0) err(1, "pthread_create"); #ifdef __x86_64__ unsigned char *stack32 = mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_32BIT | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE, -1, 0); if (stack32 == MAP_FAILED) err(1, "mmap"); #endif printf("[RUN]\tSyscalls followed by SS validation\n"); for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { /* * Go to sleep and return using sysret (if we're 64-bit * or we're 32-bit on AMD on a 64-bit kernel). On AMD CPUs, * SYSRET doesn't fix up the cached SS descriptor, so the * kernel needs some kind of workaround to make sure that we * end the system call with a valid stack segment. This * can be a confusing failure because the SS *selector* * is the same regardless. */ usleep(2); #ifdef __x86_64__ /* * On 32-bit, just doing a syscall through glibc is enough * to cause a crash if our cached SS descriptor is invalid. * On 64-bit, it's not, so try extra hard. */ call32_from_64(stack32 + 4088, test_ss); #endif } printf("[OK]\tWe survived\n"); #ifdef __x86_64__ munmap(stack32, 4096); #endif return 0; }