kernel.git/arch/x86/include/asm/asm.h, branch linux-4.20.y

Revert "x86/extable: Macrofy inline assembly code to work around GCC inlining bugs"

2018-12-19T10:59:47Z

This reverts commit 0474d5d9d2f7f3b11262f7bf87d0e7314ead9200. See this commit for details about the revert: e769742d3584 ("Revert "x86/jump-labels: Macrofy inline assembly code to work around GCC inlining bugs"") Reported-by: Masahiro Yamada Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Juergen Gross Cc: Richard Biener Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Segher Boessenkool Cc: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Nadav Amit Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/extable: Macrofy inline assembly code to work around GCC inlining bugs

2018-10-06T13:52:15Z

As described in: 77b0bf55bc67: ("kbuild/Makefile: Prepare for using macros in inline assembly code to work around asm() related GCC inlining bugs") GCC's inlining heuristics are broken with common asm() patterns used in kernel code, resulting in the effective disabling of inlining. The workaround is to set an assembly macro and call it from the inline assembly block - which is also a minor cleanup for the exception table code. Text size goes up a bit: text data bss dec hex filename 18162555 10226288 2957312 31346155 1de4deb ./vmlinux before 18162879 10226256 2957312 31346447 1de4f0f ./vmlinux after (+292) But this allows the inlining of functions such as nested_vmx_exit_reflected(), set_segment_reg(), __copy_xstate_to_user() which is a net benefit. Tested-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181005202718.229565-2-namit@vmware.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181003213100.189959-9-namit@vmware.com/T/#u Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/extable: Introduce _ASM_EXTABLE_UA for uaccess fixups

2018-09-03T13:12:09Z

Currently, most fixups for attempting to access userspace memory are handled using _ASM_EXTABLE, which is also used for various other types of fixups (e.g. safe MSR access, IRET failures, and a bunch of other things). In order to make it possible to add special safety checks to uaccess fixups (in particular, checking whether the fault address is actually in userspace), introduce a new exception table handler ex_handler_uaccess() and wire it up to all the user access fixups (excluding ones that already use _ASM_EXTABLE_EX). Signed-off-by: Jann Horn Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Tested-by: Kees Cook Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com Cc: dvyukov@google.com Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Borislav Petkov Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180828201421.157735-5-jannh@google.com

x86/asm: Add _ASM_ARG* constants for argument registers to

2018-07-03T08:56:27Z

i386 and x86-64 uses different registers for arguments; make them available so we don't have to #ifdef in the actual code. Native size and specified size (q, l, w, b) versions are provided. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers Reviewed-by: Sedat Dilek Acked-by: Juergen Gross Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: akataria@vmware.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com Cc: ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org Cc: arnd@arndb.de Cc: aryabinin@virtuozzo.com Cc: astrachan@google.com Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com Cc: brijesh.singh@amd.com Cc: caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: geert@linux-m68k.org Cc: ghackmann@google.com Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: jan.kiszka@siemens.com Cc: jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com Cc: joe@perches.com Cc: jpoimboe@redhat.com Cc: keescook@google.com Cc: kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Cc: kstewart@linuxfoundation.org Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Cc: manojgupta@google.com Cc: mawilcox@microsoft.com Cc: michal.lkml@markovi.net Cc: mjg59@google.com Cc: mka@chromium.org Cc: pombredanne@nexb.com Cc: rientjes@google.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: thomas.lendacky@amd.com Cc: tstellar@redhat.com Cc: tweek@google.com Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: will.deacon@arm.com Cc: yamada.masahiro@socionext.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180621162324.36656-3-ndesaulniers@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Revert "x86/asm: Allow again using asm.h when building for the 'bpf' clang target"

2018-04-12T13:33:27Z

This reverts commit ca26cffa4e4aaeb09bb9e308f95c7835cb149248. Newer clang versions accept that asm(_ASM_SP) construct, and now that the bpf-script-test-kbuild.c script, used in one of the 'perf test LLVM' subtests doesn't include ptrace.h, which ended up including arch/x86/include/asm/asm.h, we can revert this patch. Suggested-by: Yonghong Song Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/613f0a0d-c433-8f4d-dcc1-c9889deae39e@fb.com Acked-by: Yonghong Song Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Andrey Ryabinin Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Daniel Borkmann Cc: David Ahern Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Matthias Kaehlcke Cc: Miguel Bernal Marin Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Wang Nan Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-nqozcv8loq40tkqpfw997993@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

x86/asm: Allow again using asm.h when building for the 'bpf' clang target

2017-12-18T14:56:22Z

Up to f5caf621ee35 ("x86/asm: Fix inline asm call constraints for Clang") we were able to use x86 headers to build to the 'bpf' clang target, as done by the BPF code in tools/perf/. With that commit, we ended up with following failure for 'perf test LLVM', this is because "clang ... -target bpf ..." fails since 4.0 does not have bpf inline asm support and 6.0 does not recognize the register 'esp', fix it by guarding that part with an #ifndef __BPF__, that is defined by clang when building to the "bpf" target. # perf test -v LLVM 37: LLVM search and compile : 37.1: Basic BPF llvm compile : --- start --- test child forked, pid 25526 Kernel build dir is set to /lib/modules/4.14.0+/build set env: KBUILD_DIR=/lib/modules/4.14.0+/build unset env: KBUILD_OPTS include option is set to -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/7/include -I/home/acme/git/linux/arch/x86/include -I./arch/x86/include/generated -I/home/acme/git/linux/include -I./include -I/home/acme/git/linux/arch/x86/include/uapi -I./arch/x86/include/generated/uapi -I/home/acme/git/linux/include/uapi -I./include/generated/uapi -include /home/acme/git/linux/include/linux/kconfig.h set env: NR_CPUS=4 set env: LINUX_VERSION_CODE=0x40e00 set env: CLANG_EXEC=/usr/local/bin/clang set env: CLANG_OPTIONS=-xc set env: KERNEL_INC_OPTIONS= -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/7/include -I/home/acme/git/linux/arch/x86/include -I./arch/x86/include/generated -I/home/acme/git/linux/include -I./include -I/home/acme/git/linux/arch/x86/include/uapi -I./arch/x86/include/generated/uapi -I/home/acme/git/linux/include/uapi -I./include/generated/uapi -include /home/acme/git/linux/include/linux/kconfig.h set env: WORKING_DIR=/lib/modules/4.14.0+/build set env: CLANG_SOURCE=- llvm compiling command template: echo '/* * bpf-script-example.c * Test basic LLVM building */ #ifndef LINUX_VERSION_CODE # error Need LINUX_VERSION_CODE # error Example: for 4.2 kernel, put 'clang-opt="-DLINUX_VERSION_CODE=0x40200" into llvm section of ~/.perfconfig' #endif #define BPF_ANY 0 #define BPF_MAP_TYPE_ARRAY 2 #define BPF_FUNC_map_lookup_elem 1 #define BPF_FUNC_map_update_elem 2 static void *(*bpf_map_lookup_elem)(void *map, void *key) = (void *) BPF_FUNC_map_lookup_elem; static void *(*bpf_map_update_elem)(void *map, void *key, void *value, int flags) = (void *) BPF_FUNC_map_update_elem; struct bpf_map_def { unsigned int type; unsigned int key_size; unsigned int value_size; unsigned int max_entries; }; #define SEC(NAME) __attribute__((section(NAME), used)) struct bpf_map_def SEC("maps") flip_table = { .type = BPF_MAP_TYPE_ARRAY, .key_size = sizeof(int), .value_size = sizeof(int), .max_entries = 1, }; SEC("func=SyS_epoll_wait") int bpf_func__SyS_epoll_wait(void *ctx) { int ind =0; int *flag = bpf_map_lookup_elem(&flip_table, &ind); int new_flag; if (!flag) return 0; /* flip flag and store back */ new_flag = !*flag; bpf_map_update_elem(&flip_table, &ind, &new_flag, BPF_ANY); return new_flag; } char _license[] SEC("license") = "GPL"; int _version SEC("version") = LINUX_VERSION_CODE; ' | $CLANG_EXEC -D__KERNEL__ -D__NR_CPUS__=$NR_CPUS -DLINUX_VERSION_CODE=$LINUX_VERSION_CODE $CLANG_OPTIONS $KERNEL_INC_OPTIONS -Wno-unused-value -Wno-pointer-sign -working-directory $WORKING_DIR -c "$CLANG_SOURCE" -target bpf -O2 -o - test child finished with 0 ---- end ---- LLVM search and compile subtest 0: Ok 37.2: kbuild searching : --- start --- test child forked, pid 25950 Kernel build dir is set to /lib/modules/4.14.0+/build set env: KBUILD_DIR=/lib/modules/4.14.0+/build unset env: KBUILD_OPTS include option is set to -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/7/include -I/home/acme/git/linux/arch/x86/include -I./arch/x86/include/generated -I/home/acme/git/linux/include -I./include -I/home/acme/git/linux/arch/x86/include/uapi -I./arch/x86/include/generated/uapi -I/home/acme/git/linux/include/uapi -I./include/generated/uapi -include /home/acme/git/linux/include/linux/kconfig.h set env: NR_CPUS=4 set env: LINUX_VERSION_CODE=0x40e00 set env: CLANG_EXEC=/usr/local/bin/clang set env: CLANG_OPTIONS=-xc set env: KERNEL_INC_OPTIONS= -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/7/include -I/home/acme/git/linux/arch/x86/include -I./arch/x86/include/generated -I/home/acme/git/linux/include -I./include -I/home/acme/git/linux/arch/x86/include/uapi -I./arch/x86/include/generated/uapi -I/home/acme/git/linux/include/uapi -I./include/generated/uapi -include /home/acme/git/linux/include/linux/kconfig.h set env: WORKING_DIR=/lib/modules/4.14.0+/build set env: CLANG_SOURCE=- llvm compiling command template: echo '/* * bpf-script-test-kbuild.c * Test include from kernel header */ #ifndef LINUX_VERSION_CODE # error Need LINUX_VERSION_CODE # error Example: for 4.2 kernel, put 'clang-opt="-DLINUX_VERSION_CODE=0x40200" into llvm section of ~/.perfconfig' #endif #define SEC(NAME) __attribute__((section(NAME), used)) #include #include SEC("func=vfs_llseek") int bpf_func__vfs_llseek(void *ctx) { return 0; } char _license[] SEC("license") = "GPL"; int _version SEC("version") = LINUX_VERSION_CODE; ' | $CLANG_EXEC -D__KERNEL__ -D__NR_CPUS__=$NR_CPUS -DLINUX_VERSION_CODE=$LINUX_VERSION_CODE $CLANG_OPTIONS $KERNEL_INC_OPTIONS -Wno-unused-value -Wno-pointer-sign -working-directory $WORKING_DIR -c "$CLANG_SOURCE" -target bpf -O2 -o - In file included from :12: In file included from /home/acme/git/linux/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h:5: In file included from /home/acme/git/linux/include/linux/compiler.h:242: In file included from /home/acme/git/linux/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h:5: In file included from /home/acme/git/linux/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h:10: /home/acme/git/linux/arch/x86/include/asm/asm.h:145:50: error: unknown register name 'esp' in asm register unsigned long current_stack_pointer asm(_ASM_SP); ^ /home/acme/git/linux/arch/x86/include/asm/asm.h:44:18: note: expanded from macro '_ASM_SP' #define _ASM_SP __ASM_REG(sp) ^ /home/acme/git/linux/arch/x86/include/asm/asm.h:27:32: note: expanded from macro '__ASM_REG' #define __ASM_REG(reg) __ASM_SEL_RAW(e##reg, r##reg) ^ /home/acme/git/linux/arch/x86/include/asm/asm.h:18:29: note: expanded from macro '__ASM_SEL_RAW' # define __ASM_SEL_RAW(a,b) __ASM_FORM_RAW(a) ^ /home/acme/git/linux/arch/x86/include/asm/asm.h:11:32: note: expanded from macro '__ASM_FORM_RAW' # define __ASM_FORM_RAW(x) #x ^ :4:1: note: expanded from here "esp" ^ 1 error generated. ERROR: unable to compile - Hint: Check error message shown above. Hint: You can also pre-compile it into .o using: clang -target bpf -O2 -c - with proper -I and -D options. Failed to compile test case: 'kbuild searching' test child finished with -1 ---- end ---- LLVM search and compile subtest 1: FAILED! Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Andrey Ryabinin Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Daniel Borkmann Cc: David Ahern Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Matthias Kaehlcke Cc: Miguel Bernal Marin Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Wang Nan Cc: Yonghong Song Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171128175948.GL3298@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55Z

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/asm: Use register variable to get stack pointer value

2017-09-29T17:39:44Z

Currently we use current_stack_pointer() function to get the value of the stack pointer register. Since commit: f5caf621ee35 ("x86/asm: Fix inline asm call constraints for Clang") ... we have a stack register variable declared. It can be used instead of current_stack_pointer() function which allows to optimize away some excessive "mov %rsp, %" instructions: -mov %rsp,%rdx -sub %rdx,%rax -cmp $0x3fff,%rax -ja ffffffff810722fd +sub %rsp,%rax +cmp $0x3fff,%rax +ja ffffffff810722fa Remove current_stack_pointer(), rename __asm_call_sp to current_stack_pointer and use it instead of the removed function. Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170929141537.29167-1-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/asm: Fix inline asm call constraints for GCC 4.4

2017-09-29T11:15:44Z

The kernel test bot (run by Xiaolong Ye) reported that the following commit: f5caf621ee35 ("x86/asm: Fix inline asm call constraints for Clang") is causing double faults in a kernel compiled with GCC 4.4. Linus subsequently diagnosed the crash pattern and the buggy commit and found that the issue is with this code: register unsigned int __asm_call_sp asm("esp"); #define ASM_CALL_CONSTRAINT "+r" (__asm_call_sp) Even on a 64-bit kernel, it's using ESP instead of RSP. That causes GCC to produce the following bogus code: ffffffff8147461d: 89 e0 mov %esp,%eax ffffffff8147461f: 4c 89 f7 mov %r14,%rdi ffffffff81474622: 4c 89 fe mov %r15,%rsi ffffffff81474625: ba 20 00 00 00 mov $0x20,%edx ffffffff8147462a: 89 c4 mov %eax,%esp ffffffff8147462c: e8 bf 52 05 00 callq ffffffff814c98f0 Despite the absurdity of it backing up and restoring the stack pointer for no reason, the bug is actually the fact that it's only backing up and restoring the lower 32 bits of the stack pointer. The upper 32 bits are getting cleared out, corrupting the stack pointer. So change the '__asm_call_sp' register variable to be associated with the actual full-size stack pointer. This also requires changing the __ASM_SEL() macro to be based on the actual compiled arch size, rather than the CONFIG value, because CONFIG_X86_64 compiles some files with '-m32' (e.g., realmode and vdso). Otherwise Clang fails to build the kernel because it complains about the use of a 64-bit register (RSP) in a 32-bit file. Reported-and-Bisected-and-Tested-by: kernel test robot Diagnosed-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Andrey Ryabinin Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov Cc: LKP Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Matthias Kaehlcke Cc: Miguel Bernal Marin Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Fixes: f5caf621ee35 ("x86/asm: Fix inline asm call constraints for Clang") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170928215826.6sdpmwtkiydiytim@treble Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/asm: Fix inline asm call constraints for Clang

2017-09-23T13:06:20Z

For inline asm statements which have a CALL instruction, we list the stack pointer as a constraint to convince GCC to ensure the frame pointer is set up first: static inline void foo() { register void *__sp asm(_ASM_SP); asm("call bar" : "+r" (__sp)) } Unfortunately, that pattern causes Clang to corrupt the stack pointer. The fix is easy: convert the stack pointer register variable to a global variable. It should be noted that the end result is different based on the GCC version. With GCC 6.4, this patch has exactly the same result as before: defconfig defconfig-nofp distro distro-nofp before 9820389 9491555 8816046 8516940 after 9820389 9491555 8816046 8516940 With GCC 7.2, however, GCC's behavior has changed. It now changes its behavior based on the conversion of the register variable to a global. That somehow convinces it to *always* set up the frame pointer before inserting *any* inline asm. (Therefore, listing the variable as an output constraint is a no-op and is no longer necessary.) It's a bit overkill, but the performance impact should be negligible. And in fact, there's a nice improvement with frame pointers disabled: defconfig defconfig-nofp distro distro-nofp before 9796316 9468236 9076191 8790305 after 9796957 9464267 9076381 8785949 So in summary, while listing the stack pointer as an output constraint is no longer necessary for newer versions of GCC, it's still needed for older versions. Suggested-by: Andrey Ryabinin Reported-by: Matthias Kaehlcke Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Miguel Bernal Marin Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3db862e970c432ae823cf515c52b54fec8270e0e.1505942196.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar