Xen devel - Nov 2010 - [PATCH] x86-64: don''t crash Xen upon direct pv guest access to GDT/LDT mapping area

handle_gdt_ldt_mapping_fault() is intended to deal with indirect
accesses (i.e. those caused by descriptor loads) to the GDT/LDT
mapping area only. While for 32-bit segment limits indeed prevent the
function being entered for direct accesses (i.e. a #GP fault will be
raised even before the address translation gets done, on 64-bit even
user mode accesses would lead to control reaching the BUG_ON() at the
beginning of that function.

Fortunately the fix is simple: Since the guest kernel runs in ring 3,
any guest direct access will have the "user mode" bit set, whereas
descriptor loads always do the translations to access the actual
descriptors as kernel mode ones.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>

--- a/xen/arch/x86/traps.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/traps.c
@@ -1236,7 +1236,7 @@ static int fixup_page_fault(unsigned lon
 
     if ( unlikely(IN_HYPERVISOR_RANGE(addr)) )
     {
-        if ( !(regs->error_code & PFEC_reserved_bit) &&
+        if ( !(regs->error_code & (PFEC_user_mode | PFEC_reserved_bit))
&&
              (addr >= GDT_LDT_VIRT_START) && (addr <
GDT_LDT_VIRT_END) )
             return handle_gdt_ldt_mapping_fault(
                 addr - GDT_LDT_VIRT_START, regs);





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