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authorDenys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>2015-03-27 11:36:21 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-03-27 12:27:57 +0100
commit4ee8ec17ba00fce4af042543771f996fb9d98d34 (patch)
tree768bd1721024814da059c730d9dc0f6f796d16a7 /arch/x86/ia32
parenta232e3d558eef421fbb539ede5483dfb668e38f2 (diff)
x86/asm/entry/32: Make register zero-extension more prominent
There are a couple of syscall argument zero-extension instructions in the 32-bit compat entry code, and it was mentioned that people keep trying to optimize them out, introducing bugs. Make them more visible, and add a "do not remove" comment. Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427452582-21624-3-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/ia32')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S14
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S b/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S
index 7502ff0b938e..dec8c1de9c9e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S
+++ b/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S
@@ -122,8 +122,11 @@ ENTRY(ia32_sysenter_target)
movq PER_CPU_VAR(cpu_tss + TSS_sp0), %rsp
ENABLE_INTERRUPTS(CLBR_NONE)
+ /* Zero-extending 32-bit regs, do not remove */
+ movl %ebp, %ebp
+ movl %eax, %eax
+
/* Construct iret frame (ss,rsp,rflags,cs,rip) */
- movl %ebp,%ebp /* zero extension */
pushq_cfi $__USER32_DS
/*CFI_REL_OFFSET ss,0*/
pushq_cfi %rbp
@@ -134,7 +137,6 @@ ENTRY(ia32_sysenter_target)
CFI_REGISTER rip,r10
pushq_cfi $__USER32_CS
/*CFI_REL_OFFSET cs,0*/
- movl %eax, %eax
/* Store thread_info->sysenter_return in rip stack slot */
pushq_cfi %r10
CFI_REL_OFFSET rip,0
@@ -329,9 +331,11 @@ ENTRY(ia32_cstar_target)
movq PER_CPU_VAR(kernel_stack),%rsp
ENABLE_INTERRUPTS(CLBR_NONE)
+ /* Zero-extending 32-bit regs, do not remove */
+ movl %eax,%eax
+
ALLOC_PT_GPREGS_ON_STACK 6*8 /* 6*8: space for orig_ax and iret frame */
SAVE_C_REGS_EXCEPT_RCX_R891011
- movl %eax,%eax /* zero extension */
movq %rax,ORIG_RAX(%rsp)
movq %rcx,RIP(%rsp)
CFI_REL_OFFSET rip,RIP
@@ -471,7 +475,9 @@ ENTRY(ia32_syscall)
SWAPGS
ENABLE_INTERRUPTS(CLBR_NONE)
- movl %eax,%eax
+ /* Zero-extending 32-bit regs, do not remove */
+ movl %eax,%eax
+
pushq_cfi %rax /* store orig_ax */
cld
/* note the registers are not zero extended to the sf.