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Release 4.7 drivers/lguest/segments.c

Directory: drivers/lguest
/*P:600
 * The x86 architecture has segments, which involve a table of descriptors
 * which can be used to do funky things with virtual address interpretation.
 * We originally used to use segments so the Guest couldn't alter the
 * Guest<->Host Switcher, and then we had to trim Guest segments, and restore
 * for userspace per-thread segments, but trim again for on userspace->kernel
 * transitions...  This nightmarish creation was contained within this file,
 * where we knew not to tread without heavy armament and a change of underwear.
 *
 * In these modern times, the segment handling code consists of simple sanity
 * checks, and the worst you'll experience reading this code is butterfly-rash
 * from frolicking through its parklike serenity.
:*/
#include "lg.h"

/*H:600
 * Segments & The Global Descriptor Table
 *
 * (That title sounds like a bad Nerdcore group.  Not to suggest that there are
 * any good Nerdcore groups, but in high school a friend of mine had a band
 * called Joe Fish and the Chips, so there are definitely worse band names).
 *
 * To refresh: the GDT is a table of 8-byte values describing segments.  Once
 * set up, these segments can be loaded into one of the 6 "segment registers".
 *
 * GDT entries are passed around as "struct desc_struct"s, which like IDT
 * entries are split into two 32-bit members, "a" and "b".  One day, someone
 * will clean that up, and be declared a Hero.  (No pressure, I'm just saying).
 *
 * Anyway, the GDT entry contains a base (the start address of the segment), a
 * limit (the size of the segment - 1), and some flags.  Sounds simple, and it
 * would be, except those zany Intel engineers decided that it was too boring
 * to put the base at one end, the limit at the other, and the flags in
 * between.  They decided to shotgun the bits at random throughout the 8 bytes,
 * like so:
 *
 * 0               16                     40       48  52  56     63
 * [ limit part 1 ][     base part 1     ][ flags ][li][fl][base ]
 *                                                  mit ags part 2
 *                                                part 2
 *
 * As a result, this file contains a certain amount of magic numeracy.  Let's
 * begin.
 */

/*
 * There are several entries we don't let the Guest set.  The TSS entry is the
 * "Task State Segment" which controls all kinds of delicate things.  The
 * LGUEST_CS and LGUEST_DS entries are reserved for the Switcher, and the
 * the Guest can't be trusted to deal with double faults.
 */

static bool ignored_gdt(unsigned int num) { return (num == GDT_ENTRY_TSS || num == GDT_ENTRY_LGUEST_CS || num == GDT_ENTRY_LGUEST_DS || num == GDT_ENTRY_DOUBLEFAULT_TSS); }

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/*H:630 * Once the Guest gave us new GDT entries, we fix them up a little. We * don't care if they're invalid: the worst that can happen is a General * Protection Fault in the Switcher when it restores a Guest segment register * which tries to use that entry. Then we kill the Guest for causing such a * mess: the message will be "unhandled trap 256". */
static void fixup_gdt_table(struct lg_cpu *cpu, unsigned start, unsigned end) { unsigned int i; for (i = start; i < end; i++) { /* * We never copy these ones to real GDT, so we don't care what * they say */ if (ignored_gdt(i)) continue; /* * Segment descriptors contain a privilege level: the Guest is * sometimes careless and leaves this as 0, even though it's * running at privilege level 1. If so, we fix it here. */ if (cpu->arch.gdt[i].dpl == 0) cpu->arch.gdt[i].dpl |= GUEST_PL; /* * Each descriptor has an "accessed" bit. If we don't set it * now, the CPU will try to set it when the Guest first loads * that entry into a segment register. But the GDT isn't * writable by the Guest, so bad things can happen. */ cpu->arch.gdt[i].type |= 0x1; } }

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/*H:610 * Like the IDT, we never simply use the GDT the Guest gives us. We keep * a GDT for each CPU, and copy across the Guest's entries each time we want to * run the Guest on that CPU. * * This routine is called at boot or modprobe time for each CPU to set up the * constant GDT entries: the ones which are the same no matter what Guest we're * running. */
void setup_default_gdt_entries(struct lguest_ro_state *state) { struct desc_struct *gdt = state->guest_gdt; unsigned long tss = (unsigned long)&state->guest_tss; /* The Switcher segments are full 0-4G segments, privilege level 0 */ gdt[GDT_ENTRY_LGUEST_CS] = FULL_EXEC_SEGMENT; gdt[GDT_ENTRY_LGUEST_DS] = FULL_SEGMENT; /* * The TSS segment refers to the TSS entry for this particular CPU. */ gdt[GDT_ENTRY_TSS].a = 0; gdt[GDT_ENTRY_TSS].b = 0; gdt[GDT_ENTRY_TSS].limit0 = 0x67; gdt[GDT_ENTRY_TSS].base0 = tss & 0xFFFF; gdt[GDT_ENTRY_TSS].base1 = (tss >> 16) & 0xFF; gdt[GDT_ENTRY_TSS].base2 = tss >> 24; gdt[GDT_ENTRY_TSS].type = 0x9; /* 32-bit TSS (available) */ gdt[GDT_ENTRY_TSS].p = 0x1; /* Entry is present */ gdt[GDT_ENTRY_TSS].dpl = 0x0; /* Privilege level 0 */ gdt[GDT_ENTRY_TSS].s = 0x0; /* system segment */ }

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/* * This routine sets up the initial Guest GDT for booting. All entries start * as 0 (unusable). */
void setup_guest_gdt(struct lg_cpu *cpu) { /* * Start with full 0-4G segments...except the Guest is allowed to use * them, so set the privilege level appropriately in the flags. */ cpu->arch.gdt[GDT_ENTRY_KERNEL_CS] = FULL_EXEC_SEGMENT; cpu->arch.gdt[GDT_ENTRY_KERNEL_DS] = FULL_SEGMENT; cpu->arch.gdt[GDT_ENTRY_KERNEL_CS].dpl |= GUEST_PL; cpu->arch.gdt[GDT_ENTRY_KERNEL_DS].dpl |= GUEST_PL; }

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/*H:650 * An optimization of copy_gdt(), for just the three "thead-local storage" * entries. */
void copy_gdt_tls(const struct lg_cpu *cpu, struct desc_struct *gdt) { unsigned int i; for (i = GDT_ENTRY_TLS_MIN; i <= GDT_ENTRY_TLS_MAX; i++) gdt[i] = cpu->arch.gdt[i]; }

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/*H:640 * When the Guest is run on a different CPU, or the GDT entries have changed, * copy_gdt() is called to copy the Guest's GDT entries across to this CPU's * GDT. */
void copy_gdt(const struct lg_cpu *cpu, struct desc_struct *gdt) { unsigned int i; /* * The default entries from setup_default_gdt_entries() are not * replaced. See ignored_gdt() above. */ for (i = 0; i < GDT_ENTRIES; i++) if (!ignored_gdt(i)) gdt[i] = cpu->arch.gdt[i]; }

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/*H:620 * This is where the Guest asks us to load a new GDT entry * (LHCALL_LOAD_GDT_ENTRY). We tweak the entry and copy it in. */
void load_guest_gdt_entry(struct lg_cpu *cpu, u32 num, u32 lo, u32 hi) { /* * We assume the Guest has the same number of GDT entries as the * Host, otherwise we'd have to dynamically allocate the Guest GDT. */ if (num >= ARRAY_SIZE(cpu->arch.gdt)) { kill_guest(cpu, "too many gdt entries %i", num); return; } /* Set it up, then fix it. */ cpu->arch.gdt[num].a = lo; cpu->arch.gdt[num].b = hi; fixup_gdt_table(cpu, num, num+1); /* * Mark that the GDT changed so the core knows it has to copy it again, * even if the Guest is run on the same CPU. */ cpu->changed |= CHANGED_GDT; }

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/* * This is the fast-track version for just changing the three TLS entries. * Remember that this happens on every context switch, so it's worth * optimizing. But wouldn't it be neater to have a single hypercall to cover * both cases? */
void guest_load_tls(struct lg_cpu *cpu, unsigned long gtls) { struct desc_struct *tls = &cpu->arch.gdt[GDT_ENTRY_TLS_MIN]; __lgread(cpu, tls, gtls, sizeof(*tls)*GDT_ENTRY_TLS_ENTRIES); fixup_gdt_table(cpu, GDT_ENTRY_TLS_MIN, GDT_ENTRY_TLS_MAX+1); /* Note that just the TLS entries have changed. */ cpu->changed |= CHANGED_GDT_TLS; }

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/*H:660 * With this, we have finished the Host. * * Five of the seven parts of our task are complete. You have made it through * the Bit of Despair (I think that's somewhere in the page table code, * myself). * * Next, we examine "make Switcher". It's short, but intense. */

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