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Issue with waitqueues and Intel CET-SS


  • To: xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 14:20:27 -0400
  • Delivery-date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 18:20:47 +0000
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xenproject.org>

Hi,

I was reviewing xen/common/wait.c:__prepare_to_wait() and I think I've
identified an incompatibility with shadow stacks like Intel CET-SS.

The inline asm does:

        "call 1f;"
        "1: addq $2f-1b,(%%rsp);"
        "sub %%esp,%%ecx;"
        "cmp %3,%%ecx;"
        "ja 3f;"
        "mov %%rsp,%%rsi;"

        /* check_wakeup_from_wait() longjmp()'s to this point. */
        "2: rep movsb;"
        "mov %%rsp,%%rsi;"
        "3: pop %%rax;"

`call 1f` gets the address of the code, but the address is popped off
without ret.  This will leave the shadow stack out-of-sync which will
trigger the protection.  Is my analysis correct?

Regards,
Jason



 


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