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Date:      Thu, 8 Sep 2022 20:21:52 +0300
From:      Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        =?utf-8?Q?T=C4=B3l?= Coosemans <tijl@freebsd.org>
Cc:        pho@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: 95f773e59482 - main - i386 copyout_fast: improve detection of a fault on accessing userspace
Message-ID:  <YxoksPNqF0EZszDm@kib.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20220908190009.6377b71a@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Sep 08, 2022 at 07:00:09PM +0200, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Sep 2022 14:49:09 +0200 Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 7 Sep 2022 23:18:32 +0300 Konstantin Belousov
> > <kostikbel@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 07, 2022 at 06:38:04PM +0200, Tijl Coosemans wrote:  
> > >> So interrupts must have been reenabled somehow, probably by the page
> > >> fault handler, and this allows context switches and then another process
> > >> can call copyout or copyin and corrupt the trampoline stack and
> > >> copyout_buf.    
> > > I do not see where the interrupts could be reenabled in copyout_fast path,
> > > without or with page fault on the userspace access.  
> > 
> > The problem is not with userspace page faults.  Those are treated
> > specially by the page fault handler in exception.s causing copyout_fast
> > and copyin_fast to return immediately with EFAULT so copyout and copyin
> > fall back to doing a slow copy.
> > 
> > The problem is with page faults on the kernel space accesses.  Before
> > this commit they were also treated specially, and now they are not.  Now 
> > the page fault handler in exception.s calls trap() which calls
> > trap_pfault() etc.
> 
> And trap() contains this:
> 
> 	if (trap_enable_intr(type) && td->td_md.md_spinlock_count == 0 &&
> 	    frame->tf_eip != (int)cpu_switch_load_gs)
> 		enable_intr();
> 
> Where trap_enable_intr(T_PAGEFLT) returns true and enable_intr() is sti.
Yes, I understand what is going on, it is faulting in the _other_
movsb, not in the movsb that accessed the userspace.  This is because
pipe buffers are pageable.

I will produce the patch shortly.



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