Bug#544145: [Xen-devel] Crash with paravirt-ops 2.6.31.6 kernel
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 03:25:35PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> We are attempting to return to the Linux defined __USER_CS32 (0x23)
> which does not match the test for the Xen defined FLAT_USER_CS32
> (0xe023) and therefore we hit the sysretq instead of the sysretl which
> causes us to return with CS 0xe033 (FLAT_USER_CS64) instead of CS
> 0xe023.
Well, the problem is that this code ignores what the AMD spec stats:
| Because a SYSCALLed operating system can be entered from either 64-bit
| mode or compatibility mode, the corresponding SYSRET must know the mode
| to which it must return. [...] In the service-routine entry point
| code, a flag can be set indicating which type of SYSRET is needed upon
| exiting the called routine.
The code actually have to know if it was called from 64 or compatibility
mode, not assume it. And it also say that you have to use sysret, and
not iret.
Bastian
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