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port-i386/50245: i386 multiboot kernel assumes ss:esp is valid
>Number: 50245
>Category: port-i386
>Synopsis: i386 multiboot kernel assumes ss:esp is valid
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: port-i386-maintainer
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Mon Sep 14 16:50:01 +0000 2015
>Originator: Quentin Garnier
>Release: current
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/multiboot/multiboot.html
says this:
?ESP?
The OS image must create its own stack as soon as it needs one.
However, sys/arch/i386/i386/locore.S does this:
/*
* Indeed, a multiboot-compliant boot loader executed us. We copy
* the received Multiboot information structure into kernel's data
* space to process it later -- after we are relocated. It will
* be safer to run complex C code than doing it at this point.
*/
pushl %ebx # Address of Multiboot information
which assumes that ss:esp points to something usable, when there is no guarantee for that.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
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