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| author | Christian Krinitsin <mail@krinitsin.com> | 2025-06-12 09:56:59 +0200 |
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| committer | Christian Krinitsin <mail@krinitsin.com> | 2025-06-12 09:56:59 +0200 |
| commit | b89a938452613061c0f1f23e710281cf5c83cb29 (patch) | |
| tree | d5faecfd167e088848cad894f8dc9cfef3352e3b /results/classifier/semantic-bugs/instruction/1824344 | |
| parent | 7b681b9f9eedaad2f081ae11a32f459f5a1312ff (diff) | |
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add manually reviewed semantic bugs
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diff --git a/results/classifier/semantic-bugs/instruction/1824344 b/results/classifier/semantic-bugs/instruction/1824344 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9886d36a4 --- /dev/null +++ b/results/classifier/semantic-bugs/instruction/1824344 @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +instruction: 0.928 +assembly: 0.842 +device: 0.543 +semantic: 0.396 +network: 0.367 +socket: 0.356 +other: 0.327 +boot: 0.303 +vnc: 0.251 +graphic: 0.236 +mistranslation: 0.196 +KVM: 0.008 + +x86: retf or iret pagefault sets wrong error code + +With a x86_64 or i386 guest, non-KVM, when trying to execute a +"iret/iretq/retf" instruction in userspace with invalid stack pointer +(under a protected mode OS, like Linux), wrong bits are set in the +pushed error code; bit 2 is not set, indicating the error comes from +kernel space. + +If the guest OS is using this flag to decide whether this was a kernel +or user page fault, it will mistakenly decide a kernel has irrecoverably +faulted, possibly causing guest OS panic. + + +How to reproduce the problem a guest (non-KVM) Linux: +Note, on recent Linux kernel version, this needs a CPU with SMAP support +(eg. -cpu max) + +$ cat tst.c +int main() +{ +__asm__ volatile ( +"mov $0,%esp\n" +"retf" +); +return 0; +} + +$ gcc tst.c +$ ./a.out +Killed + + +"dmesg" shows the kernel has in fact triggered a "BUG: unable to handle +kernel NULL pointer dereference...", but it has "recovered" by killing +the faulting process (see attached screenshot). + + +Using self-compiled qemu from git: +commit 532cc6da74ec25b5ba6893b5757c977d54582949 (HEAD -> master, tag: v4.0.0-rc3, origin/master, origin/HEAD) +Author: Peter Maydell <email address hidden> +Date: Wed Apr 10 15:38:59 2019 +0100 + + Update version for v4.0.0-rc3 release + + Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <email address hidden> + + + +This appears to be similar to https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1866892 (and much simpler) + + +This is an automated cleanup. This bug report has been moved to QEMU's +new bug tracker on gitlab.com and thus gets marked as 'expired' now. +Please continue with the discussion here: + + https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/265 + + |