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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Cc: "'Christophe Leroy'" <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>,
	"'Linus Torvalds'" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: remove the last set_fs() in common code, and remove it for x86 and powerpc v3
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 10:20:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200910152030.GJ28786@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5050b43687c84515a49b345174a98822@AcuMS.aculab.com>

On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 12:26:53PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> Actually this is pretty sound:
> 	__label__ label;
> 	register int eax asm ("eax");
> 	// Ensure eax can't be reloaded from anywhere
> 	// In particular it can't be reloaded after the asm goto line
> 	asm volatile ("" : "=r" (eax));

This asm is fine.  It says it writes the "eax" variable, which lives in
the eax register *in that asm* (so *not* guaranteed after it!).

> 	// Provided gcc doesn't save eax here...
> 	asm volatile goto ("xxxxx" ::: "eax" : label);

So this is incorrect.

> 	// ... and reload the saved value here.
> 	// The input value here will be that modified by the 'asm goto'.
> 	// Since this modifies eax it can't be moved before the 'asm goto'.
> 	asm volatile ("" : "+r" (eax));
> 	// So here eax must contain the value set by the "xxxxx" instructions.

No, the register eax will contain the value of the eax variable.  In the
asm; it might well be there before or after the asm as well, but none of
that is guaranteed.


Segher

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Cc: linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	'Linus Torvalds' <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: remove the last set_fs() in common code, and remove it for x86 and powerpc v3
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 10:20:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200910152030.GJ28786@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5050b43687c84515a49b345174a98822@AcuMS.aculab.com>

On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 12:26:53PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> Actually this is pretty sound:
> 	__label__ label;
> 	register int eax asm ("eax");
> 	// Ensure eax can't be reloaded from anywhere
> 	// In particular it can't be reloaded after the asm goto line
> 	asm volatile ("" : "=r" (eax));

This asm is fine.  It says it writes the "eax" variable, which lives in
the eax register *in that asm* (so *not* guaranteed after it!).

> 	// Provided gcc doesn't save eax here...
> 	asm volatile goto ("xxxxx" ::: "eax" : label);

So this is incorrect.

> 	// ... and reload the saved value here.
> 	// The input value here will be that modified by the 'asm goto'.
> 	// Since this modifies eax it can't be moved before the 'asm goto'.
> 	asm volatile ("" : "+r" (eax));
> 	// So here eax must contain the value set by the "xxxxx" instructions.

No, the register eax will contain the value of the eax variable.  In the
asm; it might well be there before or after the asm as well, but none of
that is guaranteed.


Segher

  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-10 19:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 115+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-03 14:22 remove the last set_fs() in common code, and remove it for x86 and powerpc v3 Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 01/14] proc: remove a level of indentation in proc_get_inode Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 02/14] proc: cleanup the compat vs no compat file ops Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 03/14] proc: add a read_iter method to proc proc_ops Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 04/14] sysctl: Convert to iter interfaces Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 05/14] fs: don't allow kernel reads and writes without iter ops Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-01 22:38   ` Eric Biggers
2020-10-01 22:38     ` Eric Biggers
2020-10-01 22:40     ` Al Viro
2020-10-01 22:40       ` Al Viro
2020-10-02 16:27       ` Linus Torvalds
2020-10-02 16:27         ` Linus Torvalds
2020-10-09 22:06         ` Eric Biggers
2020-10-09 22:06           ` Eric Biggers
2020-10-10  1:03           ` Linus Torvalds
2020-10-10  1:03             ` Linus Torvalds
2020-10-10  1:19             ` Eric Biggers
2020-10-10  1:19               ` Eric Biggers
2020-10-10  1:29               ` Linus Torvalds
2020-10-10  1:29                 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-10-10  1:55                 ` Alexander Viro
2020-10-10  1:55                   ` Alexander Viro
2020-10-14  5:51                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-14  5:51                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 06/14] fs: don't allow splice read/write without explicit ops Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 07/14] uaccess: add infrastructure for kernel builds with set_fs() Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 08/14] test_bitmap: remove user bitmap tests Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 09/14] lkdtm: remove set_fs-based tests Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 10/14] x86: move PAGE_OFFSET, TASK_SIZE & friends to page_{32,64}_types.h Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22   ` [PATCH 10/14] x86: move PAGE_OFFSET, TASK_SIZE & friends to page_{32, 64}_types.h Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 11/14] x86: make TASK_SIZE_MAX usable from assembly code Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 12/14] x86: remove address space overrides using set_fs() Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 21:30   ` David Laight
2020-09-03 21:30     ` David Laight
2020-09-03 23:25     ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-03 23:25       ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-04  7:59       ` David Laight
2020-09-04  7:59         ` David Laight
2020-09-04  2:55   ` Al Viro
2020-09-04  2:55     ` Al Viro
2020-09-04  4:41     ` Al Viro
2020-09-04  4:41       ` Al Viro
2020-09-04  6:38     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-04  6:38       ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-04  7:47       ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-04  7:47         ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 13/14] powerpc: use non-set_fs based maccess routines Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 14/14] powerpc: remove address space overrides using set_fs() Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 15:43   ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-03 15:49     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 15:49       ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 15:56       ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 15:56         ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 16:03         ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-03 16:03           ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-03 14:28 ` remove the last set_fs() in common code, and remove it for x86 and powerpc v3 Al Viro
2020-09-03 14:28   ` Al Viro
2020-09-03 14:30   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:30     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:36     ` Al Viro
2020-09-03 14:36       ` Al Viro
2020-09-03 14:40       ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:40         ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-09 17:31   ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-09 17:31     ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-09 18:40     ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-09-09 18:40       ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-09-09 21:33       ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-09 21:33         ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-10  8:04         ` David Laight
2020-09-10  8:04           ` David Laight
2020-09-10  8:13           ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-10  8:13             ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-10  9:26             ` David Laight
2020-09-10  9:26               ` David Laight
2020-09-10 12:26               ` David Laight
2020-09-10 12:26                 ` David Laight
2020-09-10 15:20                 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2020-09-10 15:20                   ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-09-10 15:31                   ` David Laight
2020-09-10 15:31                     ` David Laight
2020-09-10 17:15                     ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-09-10 17:15                       ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-09-10 15:16               ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-09-10 15:16                 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-09-10 15:44         ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-09-10 15:44           ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-09-03 15:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-03 15:49   ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-04  6:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2020-09-04  6:00   ` Ingo Molnar
2020-09-04 17:58   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2020-09-04 17:58     ` Alexey Dobriyan
2020-09-04 18:42     ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-04 18:42       ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-04 21:01     ` David Laight
2020-09-04 21:01       ` David Laight
2020-09-05  7:16       ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-05  7:16         ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-05 10:13         ` David Laight
2020-09-05 10:13           ` David Laight

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