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+/*
+ * sysret_ss_attrs.c - test that syscalls return valid hidden SS attributes
+ * Copyright (c) 2015 Andrew Lutomirski
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License,
+ * version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope it will be useful, but
+ * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+ * General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * On AMD CPUs, SYSRET can return with a valid SS descriptor with with
+ * the hidden attributes set to an unusable state.  Make sure the kernel
+ * doesn't let this happen.
+ */
+
+#define _GNU_SOURCE
+
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <sys/mman.h>
+#include <err.h>
+#include <stddef.h>
+#include <stdbool.h>
+#include <pthread.h>
+
+static void *threadproc(void *ctx)
+{
+	/*
+	 * Do our best to cause sleeps on this CPU to exit the kernel and
+	 * re-enter with SS = 0.
+	 */
+	while (true)
+		;
+
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+#ifdef __x86_64__
+extern unsigned long call32_from_64(void *stack, void (*function)(void));
+
+asm (".pushsection .text\n\t"
+     ".code32\n\t"
+     "test_ss:\n\t"
+     "pushl $0\n\t"
+     "popl %eax\n\t"
+     "ret\n\t"
+     ".code64");
+extern void test_ss(void);
+#endif
+
+int main()
+{
+	/*
+	 * Start a busy-looping thread on the same CPU we're on.
+	 * For simplicity, just stick everything to CPU 0.  This will
+	 * fail in some containers, but that's probably okay.
+	 */
+	cpu_set_t cpuset;
+	CPU_ZERO(&cpuset);
+	CPU_SET(0, &cpuset);
+	if (sched_setaffinity(0, sizeof(cpuset), &cpuset) != 0)
+		printf("[WARN]\tsched_setaffinity failed\n");
+
+	pthread_t thread;
+	if (pthread_create(&thread, 0, threadproc, 0) != 0)
+		err(1, "pthread_create");
+
+#ifdef __x86_64__
+	unsigned char *stack32 = mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+				      MAP_32BIT | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE,
+				      -1, 0);
+	if (stack32 == MAP_FAILED)
+		err(1, "mmap");
+#endif
+
+	printf("[RUN]\tSyscalls followed by SS validation\n");
+
+	for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
+		/*
+		 * Go to sleep and return using sysret (if we're 64-bit
+		 * or we're 32-bit on AMD on a 64-bit kernel).  On AMD CPUs,
+		 * SYSRET doesn't fix up the cached SS descriptor, so the
+		 * kernel needs some kind of workaround to make sure that we
+		 * end the system call with a valid stack segment.  This
+		 * can be a confusing failure because the SS *selector*
+		 * is the same regardless.
+		 */
+		usleep(2);
+
+#ifdef __x86_64__
+		/*
+		 * On 32-bit, just doing a syscall through glibc is enough
+		 * to cause a crash if our cached SS descriptor is invalid.
+		 * On 64-bit, it's not, so try extra hard.
+		 */
+		call32_from_64(stack32 + 4088, test_ss);
+#endif
+	}
+
+	printf("[OK]\tWe survived\n");
+
+#ifdef __x86_64__
+	munmap(stack32, 4096);
+#endif
+
+	return 0;
+}