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Message-ID: <20190806123552.GB25897@zn.tnic>
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2019 14:35:53 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...omium.org>,
Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen@...ux.intel.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 04/11] x86/entry/64: Adapt assembly for PIE support
+ rostedt.
Steve, pls have a look at the patch at the beginning of this thread as
it touches the reentrant NMI magic. :)
Thx.
On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 10:30:32AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 07:08:51AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 10:50:30AM -0700, Thomas Garnier wrote:
> > > I saw that %rdx was used for temporary usage and restored before the
> > > end so I assumed that it was not an option.
> >
> > PUSH_AND_CLEAR_REGS saves all regs earlier so I think you should be
> > able to use others. Like SAVE_AND_SWITCH_TO_KERNEL_CR3/RESTORE_CR3, for
> > example, uses %r15 and %r14.
>
> AFAICT the CONFIG_DEBUG_ENTRY thing he's changing is before we setup
> pt_regs.
>
> Also consider the UNWIND hint that's in there, it states we only have
> the IRET frame on stack, not a full regs set.
Ok, after discussing it on IRC, I guess let's leave it like that. I
guess little ugly is better than a lot more ugly if we're wanting to
attempt to free up some regs here to save us the rax preservation.
Probably not worth the effort by a long shot.
Thx.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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