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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>2015-07-15 10:29:40 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-07-17 12:50:13 +0200
commit36f1a77b3aa57c5c2eb1ae2d67d07c4350a78345 (patch)
treed948951c13d43bfd632922c8c17ca56add40431d
parent23a781e987f05029c4a99a5c145be3efa6eda9f3 (diff)
downloadlinux-36f1a77b3aa57c5c2eb1ae2d67d07c4350a78345.tar.gz
x86/nmi/64: Make the "NMI executing" variable more consistent
Currently, "NMI executing" is one the first time an outermost
NMI hits repeat_nmi and zero thereafter.  Change it to be zero
each time for consistency.

This is intended to help NMI handling fail harder if it's buggy.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S11
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
index 0fb52526e452..5422bd20bdf4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
@@ -1441,8 +1441,8 @@ first_nmi:
 	/* Restore rdx. */
 	movq	(%rsp), %rdx
 
-	/* Set "NMI executing" on the stack. */
-	pushq	$1
+	/* Make room for "NMI executing". */
+	pushq	$0
 
 	/* Leave room for the "iret" frame */
 	subq	$(5*8), %rsp
@@ -1467,11 +1467,10 @@ repeat_nmi:
 	 * RSP is pointing to "outermost RIP".  gsbase is unknown, but, if
 	 * we're repeating an NMI, gsbase has the same value that it had on
 	 * the first iteration.  paranoid_entry will load the kernel
-	 * gsbase if needed before we call do_nmi.
-	 *
-	 * Set "NMI executing" in case we came back here via IRET.
+	 * gsbase if needed before we call do_nmi.  "NMI executing"
+	 * is zero.
 	 */
-	movq	$1, 10*8(%rsp)
+	movq	$1, 10*8(%rsp)		/* Set "NMI executing". */
 
 	/*
 	 * Copy the "outermost" frame to the "iret" frame.  NMIs that nest