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From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"Reshetova, Elena" <elena.reshetova@intel.com>,
	Network Development <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: tip -ENOBOOT - bisected to locking/refcounts, x86/asm: Implement fast refcount overflow protection
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2017 21:24:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1504293850.6217.4.camel@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5jKiGFAp8Lp2Nt1yHg_nYsY_rfrUjMgOPTNxMLkbQ8V-ng@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 2017-09-01 at 11:58 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> 
> The section stuff is supposed to be a trick to push the error case off
> into the .text.unlikely area to avoid needing a jmp over the handler
> and with possibly some redundancy removal done by the compiler (though
> this appears to be rather limited) if it notices a bunch of error
> paths are the same. However, in your disassembly, it's inline (!!) in
> the code, as if "pushsection" and "popsection" were entirely ignored.
> 
> And when I make my own in6_dev_getx(), I see the same disassembly:
> 
>    0xffffffff818a757b <+181>:   lock incl 0x1e0(%rbx)
>    0xffffffff818a7582 <+188>:   js     0xffffffff818a7584 <in6_dev_getx+190>
>    0xffffffff818a7584 <+190>:   lea    0x1e0(%rbx),%rcx
>    0xffffffff818a758b <+197>:   (bad)
> 
> Which is VERY different from how it looks in other places!
> 
> e.g. from lkdtm_REFCOUNT_INC_SATURATED:
> 
>    0xffffffff815657df <+47>:    lock incl -0xc(%rbp)
>    0xffffffff815657e3 <+51>:    js     0xffffffff81565cac
> ...
>    0xffffffff81565cac:  lea    -0xc(%rbp),%rcx
>    0xffffffff81565cb0:  (bad)
> 
> So, at least I can reproduce this in the build now. I must not be
> exercising these paths. FWIW, this is with Ubuntu's 6.3.0 gcc.
> 
> I'll try to figure out what's going on here...

Heh, make in6_dev_getx() __always_inline.

       swapper/0-1     [000] d..1     1.438587: ip6_route_init_special_entries: PRE refs.counter:3
       swapper/0-1     [000] d..1     1.438590: ip6_route_init_special_entries: POST refs.counter:4
       swapper/0-1     [000] d..1     1.438591: ip6_route_init_special_entries: PRE refs.counter:4
       swapper/0-1     [000] d..1     1.438592: ip6_route_init_special_entries: POST refs.counter:5
       swapper/0-1     [000] d..1     1.438592: ip6_route_init_special_entries: PRE refs.counter:5
       swapper/0-1     [000] d..1     1.438593: ip6_route_init_special_entries: POST refs.counter:6

	-Mike

  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-01 19:24 UTC|newest]

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2017-08-31  4:01                             ` tip -ENOBOOT - bisected to locking/refcounts, x86/asm: Implement fast refcount overflow protection Kees Cook
2017-08-31  4:10                               ` Kees Cook
2017-08-31  4:38                                 ` Mike Galbraith
2017-08-31 13:58                                 ` Mike Galbraith
2017-08-31 17:00                                   ` Kees Cook
2017-08-31 17:19                                     ` Mike Galbraith
2017-08-31 18:45                                       ` Kees Cook
2017-09-01  6:57                                         ` Mike Galbraith
2017-09-01 13:09                                           ` Mike Galbraith
2017-09-01 17:12                                             ` Kees Cook
2017-09-01 17:52                                               ` Mike Galbraith
2017-09-01 18:58                                                 ` Kees Cook
2017-09-01 19:24                                                   ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
2017-09-01 19:40                                                   ` Kees Cook
2017-08-31 19:28                                   ` Kees Cook

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