From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Ammar Faizi <ammar.faizi@students.amikom.ac.id>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools/nolibc: x86: Remove `r8`, `r9` and `r10` from the clobber list
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2021 13:40:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8147f571-0da2-f20c-31dd-72ad56eb1ba0@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YWbUbSUVLy/tx7Zu@zn.tnic>
On 10/13/21 05:43, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 05:23:11AM +0700, Ammar Faizi wrote:
>> "Figure 3.4: Register Usage" is not the answer, if it were, nolibc.h
>> would be broken as it is missing "rdi", "rsi", "rdx" in the clobber list.
>
> It is not about what happens in practice but what the contract is:
> syscall argument registers can potentially get clobbered and userspace
> should treat them as such. Because if the kernel decides to actually
> clobber them for whatever reason and some userspace thing thinks
> otherwise, then it is the userspace thing's problem as it doesn't adhere
> to the well known ABI.
>
Currently the kernel doesn't, but some past kernels have zeroed some of
these registers rather than preserving them.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-23 20:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-11 4:03 [PATCH] tools/nolibc: x86: Remove `r8`, `r9` and `r10` from the clobber list Ammar Faizi
2021-10-12 5:28 ` Willy Tarreau
2021-10-12 8:36 ` Ammar Faizi
2021-10-12 9:06 ` Willy Tarreau
2021-10-12 20:29 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-10-12 21:51 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-10-12 22:23 ` Ammar Faizi
2021-10-13 3:01 ` Willy Tarreau
2021-10-13 3:32 ` Ammar Faizi
2021-10-13 3:34 ` Ammar Faizi
2021-10-13 3:37 ` Ammar Faizi
2021-10-13 12:43 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-10-13 12:51 ` Willy Tarreau
2021-10-13 13:06 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-10-13 14:07 ` Willy Tarreau
2021-10-13 14:20 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-10-13 14:24 ` Willy Tarreau
2021-10-13 16:24 ` Michael Matz
2021-10-13 16:30 ` Willy Tarreau
2021-10-13 16:51 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-10-13 16:52 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-10-14 8:44 ` Ammar Faizi
2021-10-14 12:44 ` Michael Matz
2021-10-14 14:31 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-10-19 9:06 ` David Laight
2021-10-23 20:40 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2021-10-12 21:21 ` David Laight
2021-10-12 23:02 ` Subject: " Ammar Faizi
2021-10-13 9:03 ` [PATCH v2] " Ammar Faizi
2021-10-15 8:25 ` [PATCH 0/2] Fix clobber list and startup code bug Ammar Faizi
2021-10-15 8:25 ` [PATCH 1/2] tools/nolibc: x86: Remove `r8`, `r9` and `r10` from the clobber list Ammar Faizi
2021-10-18 5:52 ` Willy Tarreau
2021-10-15 8:25 ` [PATCH 2/2] tools/nolibc: x86-64: Fix startup code bug Ammar Faizi
2021-10-15 8:57 ` Ammar Faizi
2021-10-15 9:26 ` Bedirhan KURT
2021-10-15 9:58 ` Ammar Faizi
2021-10-15 9:41 ` Louvian Lyndal
2021-10-18 4:58 ` Willy Tarreau
2021-10-18 6:53 ` Ammar Faizi
2021-10-23 13:27 ` Ammar Faizi
2021-10-23 13:43 ` Willy Tarreau
2021-10-24 2:11 ` [PATCHSET v2 0/2] tools/nolibc: Fix startup code bug and small improvement Ammar Faizi
2021-10-24 2:11 ` [PATCH 1/2] tools/nolibc: x86-64: Fix startup code bug Ammar Faizi
2021-10-24 2:11 ` [PATCH 2/2] tools/nolibc: x86-64: Use `mov $60,%eax` instead of `mov $60,%rax` Ammar Faizi
2021-10-24 11:41 ` [PATCHSET v2 0/2] tools/nolibc: Fix startup code bug and small improvement Willy Tarreau
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