c - 从exec系统调用返回时使用iret

我注意到，在start_thread函数的末尾（在exec的大部分工作完成后调用），有一个对force_iret的调用：

    static void
    start_thread_common(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long new_ip,
        unsigned long new_sp,
        unsigned int _cs, unsigned int _ss, unsigned int _ds)
    {
         loadsegment(fs, 0);
         loadsegment(es, _ds);
         loadsegment(ds, _ds);
         load_gs_index(0);
         regs->ip       = new_ip;
         regs->sp       = new_sp;
         regs->cs       = _cs;
         regs->ss       = _ss;
         regs->flags        = X86_EFLAGS_IF;
         force_iret();
    }

我假设这样做是为了确保sysexit不用于返回用户空间。那么，为什么从iret返回时必须使用exec？

最佳答案

此函数用于修改sysret/sysexit无法还原的寄存器。
这里是arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h：

/*
 * Force syscall return via IRET by making it look as if there was
 * some work pending. IRET is our most capable (but slowest) syscall
 * return path, which is able to restore modified SS, CS and certain
 * EFLAGS values that other (fast) syscall return instructions
 * are not able to restore properly.
 */
#define force_iret() set_thread_flag(TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME)

关于c - 从exec系统调用返回时使用iret，我们在Stack Overflow上找到一个类似的问题：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48934120/