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Message-ID: <fdd74037-5b47-b4e1-e692-54534d518e88@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 11:38:48 -0800
From: Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>
To: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Cc: Alexander Popov <alex.popov@...ux.com>, Kees Cook
 <keescook@...omium.org>, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
 Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
 richard.sandiford@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] stackleak: Update for arm64

On 02/22/2018 08:58 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
> Hi Laura,
> 
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 05:13:02PM -0800, Laura Abbott wrote:
>>
>> arm64 has another layer of indirection in the RTL.
>> Account for this in the plugin.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>
>> ---
>>   scripts/gcc-plugins/stackleak_plugin.c | 5 +++++
>>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/scripts/gcc-plugins/stackleak_plugin.c b/scripts/gcc-plugins/stackleak_plugin.c
>> index 6fc991c98d8b..7dfaa027423f 100644
>> --- a/scripts/gcc-plugins/stackleak_plugin.c
>> +++ b/scripts/gcc-plugins/stackleak_plugin.c
>> @@ -244,6 +244,11 @@ static unsigned int stackleak_final_execute(void)
>>   		 * that insn.
>>   		 */
>>   		body = PATTERN(insn);
>> +		/* arm64 is different */
>> +		if (GET_CODE(body) == PARALLEL) {
>> +			body = XEXP(body, 0);
>> +			body = XEXP(body, 0);
>> +		}
> 
> Like most kernel developers, I don't know the first thing about GCC internals
> so I asked our GCC team and Richard (CC'd) reckons this should be:
> 
> 	if (GET_CODE(body) == PARALLEL)
> 		body = XVECEXP(body, 0, 0);
> 
> instead of the hunk above. Can you give that a go instead, please?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Will
> 

Yep, seems to work fine and makes sense from my understanding of
gcc internals. I'll fix it up for the next version. Thanks for the
review!

Laura

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