From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com,
julien.thierry@arm.com, will.deacon@arm.com, luto@amacapital.net,
mingo@kernel.org, catalin.marinas@arm.com, james.morse@arm.com,
valentin.schneider@arm.com, brgerst@gmail.com, luto@kernel.org,
bp@alien8.de, dvlasenk@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
dvyukov@google.com, rostedt@goodmis.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/20] objtool: Add Direction Flag validation
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 15:56:02 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190308215602.txm4bv2eg2tyubuj@treble> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190308213343.GE2482@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net>
On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 10:33:43PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 03:16:03PM -0600, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 12:45:31PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > Having DF escape is BAD(tm).
> > >
> > > Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> > > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
> >
> > Can you elaborate on why (in the patch description)? Did this actually
> > find any occurrences?
>
> Nope, didn't find anything. Also, all DF users are in asm so I didn't
> really expect any. Having it escape would probably result in fairly
> instant wreckage though.
>
> DF=1 results in things like rep mov going _backwards_.
Ok, I wonder if we really need to add this then.
--
Josh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-08 21:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 100+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-07 11:45 [PATCH 00/20] objtool: UACCESS validation v3 Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-07 11:45 ` [PATCH 01/20] x86/ia32: Fix ia32_restore_sigcontext AC leak Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-07 11:45 ` [PATCH 02/20] i915,uaccess: Fix redundant CLAC Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-07 11:45 ` [PATCH 03/20] x86/uaccess: Move copy_user_handle_tail into asm Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-08 18:53 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-03-08 19:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-08 19:53 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-03-10 13:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-07 11:45 ` [PATCH 04/20] x86/uaccess: Fix up the fixup Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-07 11:45 ` [PATCH 05/20] x86/uaccess/xen: Suppress SMAP warnings Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-07 12:22 ` Juergen Gross
2019-03-07 12:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-07 12:36 ` Juergen Gross
2019-03-08 19:00 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-03-08 19:03 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-03-10 13:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-11 17:59 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-03-08 19:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-07 11:45 ` [PATCH 06/20] x86/uaccess: Always inline user_access_begin() Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-07 11:45 ` [PATCH 07/20] x86/uaccess: Always inline force_valid_ss() Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-07 13:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-07 18:05 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-03-07 18:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-07 19:06 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-03-07 11:45 ` [PATCH 08/20] x86/uaccess: Introduce user_access_{save,restore}() Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-07 11:45 ` [PATCH 09/20] x86/uaccess,kasan: Fix KASAN vs SMAP Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-07 11:45 ` [PATCH 10/20] x86/uaccess,ubsan: Fix UBSAN " Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-07 11:45 ` [PATCH 11/20] x86/uaccess,ftrace: Fix ftrace_likely_update() " Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-07 11:45 ` [PATCH 12/20] objtool: Set insn->func for alternatives Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-08 19:16 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-03-08 19:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-07 11:45 ` [PATCH 13/20] objtool: Hande function aliases Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-08 19:23 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-03-08 19:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-08 20:00 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-03-07 11:45 ` [PATCH 14/20] objtool: Rewrite add_ignores() Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-08 19:29 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-03-07 11:45 ` [PATCH 15/20] objtool: Add --backtrace support Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-08 19:33 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-03-07 11:45 ` [PATCH 16/20] objtool: Rewrite alt->skip_orig Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-08 20:15 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-03-08 21:34 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-08 22:27 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-03-07 11:45 ` [PATCH 17/20] objtool: Fix sibling call detection Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-08 20:22 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-03-07 11:45 ` [PATCH 18/20] objtool: Add UACCESS validation Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-07 16:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-07 17:10 ` hpa
2019-03-07 17:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-07 17:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-07 18:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-07 18:51 ` hpa
2019-03-07 19:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-08 15:01 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-03-08 15:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-07 20:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-07 20:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-08 15:07 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-03-08 15:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-07 20:15 ` Andrey Ryabinin
2019-03-07 20:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-07 20:40 ` Andrey Ryabinin
2019-03-07 20:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-08 21:02 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-03-08 21:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-08 21:54 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-03-10 13:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-11 18:01 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-03-07 11:45 ` [PATCH 19/20] objtool: uaccess PUSHF/POPF support Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-08 21:11 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-03-10 13:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-07 11:45 ` [PATCH 20/20] objtool: Add Direction Flag validation Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-08 21:16 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-03-08 21:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-08 21:56 ` Josh Poimboeuf [this message]
2019-03-10 13:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-11 18:00 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-03-07 12:03 ` [PATCH 00/20] objtool: UACCESS validation v3 Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-07 12:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-07 13:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-07 16:47 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-03-07 16:50 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-03-07 17:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-07 17:17 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-03-07 17:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-07 17:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-07 18:18 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-03-10 13:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-19 10:08 ` [PATCH] compiler.h, tracing: Remove CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES Ingo Molnar
2019-04-19 13:04 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-03-07 17:04 ` [PATCH 00/20] objtool: UACCESS validation v3 hpa
2019-03-07 17:18 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-03-07 17:29 ` hpa
2019-03-07 17:45 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-03-07 17:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-07 17:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-07 17:48 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-04-03 8:21 ` [tip:core/objtool] tracing: Improve "if" macro code generation tip-bot for Josh Poimboeuf
2019-03-07 16:31 ` [PATCH 00/20] objtool: UACCESS validation v3 Linus Torvalds
2019-03-07 17:14 ` hpa
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