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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Joao Moreira <joao@overdrivepizza.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	x86@kernel.org, Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/ibt: Implement FineIBT
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 22:30:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y08M4+GxoqvuZ+bq@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c561dd8ec384bfc77998a6db6ed824e7@overdrivepizza.com>

On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 01:17:28PM -0700, Joao Moreira wrote:
> > 
> > > Tangent: why are these nop instead of 0xcc? These bytes aren't
> > > executed
> > > ever are they?
> > 
> > Because that's what the compiler gets us through
> > -fpatchable-function-entry.
> 
> Is it useful to get the compiler to emit 0xcc with
> -fpatchable-function-entry under any circumstance? I can probably change
> that quickly if needed/useful.

Having it emit 0xcc for the bytes in front of the symbol might be
interesting. It would mean a few kernel changes, but nothing too hard.

That is, -fpatchable-function-entry=N,M gets us N-M bytes in at the
start of the symbol and M bytes in front of it. The N-M bytes at the
start of the function *are* executed and should obviously not become
0xcc (GCC keeps them 0x90 while LLVM makes them large NOPs).

  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-18 20:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-18 13:35 [PATCH] x86/ibt: Implement FineIBT Peter Zijlstra
2022-10-18 14:43 ` David Laight
2022-10-18 15:58   ` Joao Moreira
2022-10-18 17:20     ` Kees Cook
2022-10-18 20:09       ` Joao Moreira
2022-10-19  5:33         ` Kees Cook
2022-10-18 21:27     ` David Laight
2022-10-18 14:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-10-18 18:09 ` Kees Cook
2022-10-18 19:56   ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-10-18 23:31     ` Josh Poimboeuf
2022-10-19  5:22       ` Kees Cook
2022-10-19 11:38       ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-10-19  5:14     ` Kees Cook
2022-10-18 19:59   ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-10-18 21:09     ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-10-19  5:05     ` Kees Cook
2022-10-19 12:03       ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-10-19 15:22         ` Sami Tolvanen
2022-10-20 11:04           ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-10-18 19:59   ` Joao Moreira
2022-10-19  5:32     ` Kees Cook
2022-10-19 19:35       ` Joao Moreira
2022-10-18 20:05   ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-10-19  5:00     ` Kees Cook
2022-10-18 20:09   ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-10-18 20:17     ` Joao Moreira
2022-10-18 20:30       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2022-10-19  4:48         ` Joao Moreira
2022-10-19  5:19           ` Kees Cook
2022-10-31 19:13             ` Joao Moreira
2022-11-01 21:39               ` Kees Cook
2022-11-01 21:50                 ` Joao Moreira
2022-10-19  5:18         ` Kees Cook
2022-10-19  5:16     ` Kees Cook
2022-10-20 11:05   ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-10-18 23:38 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2022-10-19  7:29   ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-10-21 23:08 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2022-10-22 15:03   ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-10-24 17:15     ` Sami Tolvanen
2022-10-24 18:38       ` Joao Moreira

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