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Steven Rostedt authored
Avi Kivity reported that page faults in NMIs could cause havic if the NMI preempted another page fault handler: The recent changes to NMI allow exceptions to take place in NMI handlers, but I think that a #PF (say, due to access to vmalloc space) is still problematic. Consider the sequence #PF (cr2 set by processor) NMI ... #PF (cr2 clobbered) do_page_fault() IRET ... IRET do_page_fault() address = read_cr2() The last line reads the overwritten cr2 value. This is the i386 version, which has the luxury of doing the work in C code. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4FBB8C40.6080304@redhat.comReported-by:
Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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