From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA4C3C433DF for ; Fri, 3 Jul 2020 21:03:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC2EC206CD for ; Fri, 3 Jul 2020 21:03:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726795AbgGCVDD (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Jul 2020 17:03:03 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:47092 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726379AbgGCVDD (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Jul 2020 17:03:03 -0400 Received: from ZenIV.linux.org.uk (zeniv.linux.org.uk [IPv6:2002:c35c:fd02::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B57B5C061794 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 2020 14:03:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from viro by ZenIV.linux.org.uk with local (Exim 4.92.3 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1jrSpS-004pJE-0P; Fri, 03 Jul 2020 21:02:38 +0000 Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2020 22:02:37 +0100 From: Al Viro To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Michael Ellerman , Christophe Leroy , Josh Poimboeuf , Peter Zijlstra , the arch/x86 maintainers , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: objtool clac/stac handling change.. Message-ID: <20200703210237.GS2786714@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <20200701195914.GK2786714@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <87lfk26nx4.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au> <20200702201755.GO2786714@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20200702205902.GP2786714@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20200703013328.GQ2786714@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200703013328.GQ2786714@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 02:33:28AM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 02:55:19PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > And while XSTATE_OP() is still disgusting, it's > > > > (a) slightly less disgusting than it used to be > > > > (b) now easily fixable if we do the "exceptions clear AC" thing. > > > > so it's an improvement all around. > > > > If it works, that is. As mentioned: IT HAS NO TESTING. > > What about load_unaligned_zeropad()? Normally the caller doesn't > want to know about the exception on crossing into an unmapped > page. Blanket "clear #AC of fixup, don't go through user_access_end() > in case of exception" would complicate the code that calls that sucker. Actually, for more serious problem consider arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S In case of an unhandled fault on attempt to read an (unaligned) word, the damn thing falls back to this: SYM_CODE_START_LOCAL(.Lcopy_user_handle_tail) movl %edx,%ecx 1: rep movsb 2: mov %ecx,%eax ASM_CLAC ret _ASM_EXTABLE_UA(1b, 2b) SYM_CODE_END(.Lcopy_user_handle_tail) We could do what alpha, sparc et.al. are doing - have both reads and writes aligned, with every output word being a mix of two input ones. But I would expect that to be considerably slower than the current variants. Sure, we can set AC in .Lcopy_user_handle_tail, but that doesn't look right. And while squeezing every byte on a short copy is not a hard requirement, in situation when the source is one byte before the end of page and destination is aligned, raw_copy_from_user() really must copy at least one byte if it's readable. So I suspect that we need a variant of extable entry that does not clear AC, at least for these fallbacks. PS: I'm still going through the _ASM_EXTABLE... users on x86, so there might be more fun. Will post when I'm done...