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id = 1910
title = "Signal handlers in x86_64 userspace have wrongly aligned stack"
state = "closed"
created_at = "2023-09-28T08:17:08.602Z"
closed_at = "2023-09-29T14:53:31.357Z"
labels = ["Closed::Duplicate", "host: x86", "linux-user", "target: i386"]
url = "https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1910"
host-os = "openSUSE Tumbleweed"
host-arch = "x86_64"
qemu-version = "8.1.0"
guest-os = "Linux"
guest-arch = "x86_64"
description = """Various applications crash in signal handlers due to `movaps` getting a misaligned stack address. For some reason this is reported as a NULL deref, but `gdb` clearly shows the true cause.

```plaintext
> qemu-x86_64 /usr/bin/ruby -e '`true`'
-e:1: [BUG] Segmentation fault at 0x0000000000000000
ruby 3.2.2 (2023-03-30 revision e51014f9c0) [x86_64-linux-gnu]

-- Control frame information -----------------------------------------------
c:0003 p:---- s:0011 e:000010 CFUNC  :`
c:0002 p:0005 s:0006 e:000005 EVAL   -e:1 [FINISH]
c:0001 p:0000 s:0003 E:0015b0 DUMMY  [FINISH]

-- Ruby level backtrace information ----------------------------------------
-e:1:in `<main>'
-e:1:in ``'

-- Machine register context ------------------------------------------------
 RIP: 0x00002aaaab50f98a RBP: 0x00002aaaabb136b8 RSP: 0x00002aaaab2a9c98
 RAX: 0x0000000000000000 RBX: 0x0000000000004946 RCX: 0x0000000000000000
 RDX: 0x00002aaaab2a9c98 RDI: 0x000000000caf0000 RSI: 0x0000000000000000
  R8: 0x00002aaaab2aaa50  R9: 0x0000000000000050 R10: 0x0000000000000008
 R11: 0x0000000000000000 R12: 0x0000000000000002 R13: 0x0000000000007310
 R14: 0x0000000000005e10 R15: 0x00002aaab0537f20 EFL: 0x0000000000000246

-- C level backtrace information -------------------------------------------
```

```plaintext
(gdb) x/i $pc
=> 0x2aaaab50f98a:      movaps %xmm0,(%rsp)
(gdb) p/x $rsp
$3 = 0x2aaaab2a9998
```"""
reproduce = """1. ```qemu-x86_64 /usr/bin/ruby -e '`true`'```"""
additional = """The x86_64 psABI says:

> the value (%rsp − 8) is always a multiple of 16 when control is transferred to the function entry point.

However, when QEMU jumps to the signal handler, $rsp is aligned to 16B, i.e. ends in `0x..0`.

The relevant kernel code:

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.5.5/source/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c#L123

```plaintext
\tsp -= frame_size;

\tif (ia32_frame)
\t\t/*
\t\t * Align the stack pointer according to the i386 ABI,
\t\t * i.e. so that on function entry ((sp + 4) & 15) == 0.
\t\t */
\t\tsp = ((sp + 4) & -FRAME_ALIGNMENT) - 4;
\telse
\t\tsp = round_down(sp, FRAME_ALIGNMENT) - 8;
```

CC @lvivier @bonzini @rth7680"""