[CRIU] [PATCH 2/8] x86/kerndat: Add a check for ptrace() bug on Skylake

[Andrei Vagin]

On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 02:52:05AM +0000, Dmitry Safonov wrote:
> 2018-02-06 1:40 GMT+00:00 Andrei Vagin <avagin at virtuozzo.com>:
> > On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 04:58:09PM +0000, Dmitry Safonov wrote:
> >> We need to know if ptrace(PTRACE_GETREGSET, pid, NT_X86_XSTATE, iov)
> >> returns xsave without FP state part.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima at arista.com>
> >> ---
> >>  criu/arch/x86/crtools.c              | 71 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>  criu/arch/x86/include/asm/restorer.h |  2 +
> >>  criu/include/kerndat.h               |  1 +
> >>  criu/kerndat.c                       | 18 +++++++++
> >>  4 files changed, 92 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/criu/arch/x86/crtools.c b/criu/arch/x86/crtools.c
> >> index d7b21e7c9bae..a389e563a886 100644
> >> --- a/criu/arch/x86/crtools.c
> >> +++ b/criu/arch/x86/crtools.c
> >> @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
> >>  #include <sys/syscall.h>
> >>  #include <sys/auxv.h>
> >>  #include <sys/wait.h>
> >> +#include <sys/ptrace.h>
> >>
> >>  #include "types.h"
> >>  #include "log.h"
> >> @@ -30,6 +31,7 @@
> >>  #include "images/core.pb-c.h"
> >>  #include "images/creds.pb-c.h"
> >>
> >> +/* XXX: Move all kerndat features to per-arch kerndat .c */
> >>  int kdat_can_map_vdso(void)
> >>  {
> >>       pid_t child;
> >> @@ -188,6 +190,75 @@ int kdat_compatible_cr(void)
> >>  }
> >>  #endif
> >>
> >> +/*
> >> + * Pre v4.14 kernels have a bug on Skylake CPUs:
> >> + * copyout_from_xsaves() creates fpu state for
> >> + *   ptrace(PTRACE_GETREGSET, pid, NT_X86_XSTATE, &iov)
> >> + * without MXCSR and MXCSR_FLAGS if there is SSE/YMM state, but no FP state.
> >> + * That is xfeatures had either/both XFEATURE_MASK_{SSE,YMM} set, but not
> >> + * XFEATURE_MASK_FP.
> >> + * But we *really* need to C/R MXCSR & MXCSR_FLAGS if SSE/YMM active,
> >> + * as mxcsr store part of the state.
> >> + */
> >> +int kdat_x86_has_ptrace_fpu_xsave_bug(void)
> >> +{
> >> +     user_fpregs_struct_t xsave = { };
> >> +     struct iovec iov;
> >> +     int ret = -1;
> >> +     pid_t child;
> >> +     int stat;
> >> +
> >> +     /* OSXSAVE can't be changed during boot. */
> >> +     if (!compel_cpu_has_feature(X86_FEATURE_OSXSAVE))
> >> +             return 0;
> >> +
> >> +     child = fork();
> >> +     if (child < 0) {
> >> +             pr_perror("%s(): failed to fork()", __func__);
> >> +             return -1;
> >> +     }
> >> +
> >> +     if (child == 0) {
> >> +             ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME, 0, 0, 0);
> >
> > It can fail in a case when criu is running under strace. In this case I
> > would like to get a warning and conside that a kernel doesn't have this
> > bug.
> 
> I actually think after fixing that it might be better to consider that kernel
> *has* this bug. It's safer because two syscall would work if bug is present
> or not. So it's just one syscall more (per-thread) for the unlikely case when
> someone firstly filled kerndat under ptrace(). This way we will not end up
> debugging this bug again. Makes sense?

Yes. Let's do this way.
> 
> -- 
>              Dmitry