Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 00:44:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Bruce Evans <bde@FreeBSD.org> To: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 vm_machdep.c Message-ID: <200105130744.f4D7iFi60673@freefall.freebsd.org>
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bde 2001/05/13 00:44:14 PDT
Modified files:
sys/i386/i386 vm_machdep.c
Log:
Use a critical region to protect pushing of the parent's npx state to the
pcb for fork(). It was possible for the state to be saved twice when an
interrupt handler saved it concurrently. This corrupted (reset) the state
because fnsave has the (in)convenient side effect of doing an implicit
fninit. Mundane null pointer bugs were not possible, because we save to
an "arbitrary" process's pcb and not to the "right" place (npxproc).
Push the parent's %gs to the pcb for fork(). Changes to %gs before
fork() were not preserved in the child unless an accidental context
switch did the pushing. Updated the list of pcb contents which is
supposed to inhibit bugs like this. pcb_dr*, pcb_gs and pcb_ext were
missing. Copying is correct for pcb_dr*, and pcb_ext is already
handled specially (although XXX'ly).
Reducing the savectx() call to an npxsave() call in rev.1.80 was a
mistake. The above bugs are duplicated in many places, including in
savectx() itself.
The arbitraryness of the parent process pointer for the fork()
subroutines, the pcb pointer for savectx(), and the save87 pointer
for npxsave(), is illusory. These functions don't work "right" unless
the pointers are precisely curproc, curpcb, and the address of npxproc's
save87 area, respectively, although the special context in which they
are called allows savectx(&dumppcb) to sort of work and npxsave(&dummy)
to work. cpu_fork() just doesn't work unless the parent process
pointer is curproc, or the caller has pushed %gs to the pcb, or %gs
happens to already be in the pcb.
Revision Changes Path
1.157 +15 -5 src/sys/i386/i386/vm_machdep.c
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