Atom-based CPUs trigger stack fault when invoke 32-bit SYSENTER instruction with invalid register values. So we also need sigbus handling in this case.
Following is assembly when the fault expception happens.
(gdb) disassemble $eip Dump of assembler code for function __kernel_vsyscall: 0xf7fd8fe0 <+0>: push %ecx 0xf7fd8fe1 <+1>: push %edx 0xf7fd8fe2 <+2>: push %ebp 0xf7fd8fe3 <+3>: mov %esp,%ebp 0xf7fd8fe5 <+5>: sysenter 0xf7fd8fe7 <+7>: int $0x80 => 0xf7fd8fe9 <+9>: pop %ebp 0xf7fd8fea <+10>: pop %edx 0xf7fd8feb <+11>: pop %ecx 0xf7fd8fec <+12>: ret End of assembler dump.
Accroding to Intel SDM, this could also be a Stack Segment Fault(#SS, 12), except a normal Page Fault(#PF, 14). Especially, in section 6.9 of Vol.3A, both stack and page faults are within the 10th(lowest priority) class, and as it said, "exceptions within each class are implementation-dependent and may vary from processor to processor". It's expected for processors like Intel Atom to trigger stack fault(sigbus), while we get page fault(sigsegv) from common Core processors.
Signed-off-by: Tong Bo bo.tong@intel.com --- tools/testing/selftests/x86/syscall_arg_fault.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/x86/syscall_arg_fault.c b/tools/testing/selftests/x86/syscall_arg_fault.c index 7db4fc9..38cd246 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/x86/syscall_arg_fault.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/x86/syscall_arg_fault.c @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ static sigjmp_buf jmpbuf;
static volatile sig_atomic_t n_errs;
-static void sigsegv(int sig, siginfo_t *info, void *ctx_void) +static void sigsegv_or_sigbus(int sig, siginfo_t *info, void *ctx_void) { ucontext_t *ctx = (ucontext_t*)ctx_void;
@@ -73,7 +73,9 @@ int main() if (sigaltstack(&stack, NULL) != 0) err(1, "sigaltstack");
- sethandler(SIGSEGV, sigsegv, SA_ONSTACK); + sethandler(SIGSEGV, sigsegv_or_sigbus, SA_ONSTACK); + /* Atom CPUs may trigger sigbus for below SYSENTER exception case */ + sethandler(SIGBUS, sigsegv_or_sigbus, SA_ONSTACK); sethandler(SIGILL, sigill, SA_ONSTACK);
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