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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86/selftests: add clobbers for int80 on x86_64
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On 02/10/2017 07:45 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 8:28 AM, Dmitry Safonov <dsafonov@virtuozzo.com> wrote:
>> On 02/10/2017 07:13 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 3:52 AM, Dmitry Safonov <dsafonov@virtuozzo.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Kernel erases R8..R11 registers prior returning to userspace
>>>> from int80: https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/1/164
>>>>
>>>> GCC can reuse this registers and doesn't expect them to change
>>>> during syscall invocation. I met this kind of bug in CRIU once
>>>> gcc 6.1 and clang stored local variables in those registers
>>>> and the kernel zerofied them during syscall:
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/xemul/criu/commit/990d33f1a1cdd17bca6c2eb059ab3be2564f7fa2
>>>>
>>>> By that reason I suggest to add those registers to clobbers
>>>> in selftests.
>>>
>>>
>>> Seems reasonable, but presumably INT80_CLOBBERS should be defined the
>>> same way in all the tests. IOW, if the "flags" clobber is actually
>>> needed, it should be "flags", INT80_CLOBBERS (possibly without the
>>> comma if it's problematic).
>>>
>>
>> Well, that was my initial attempt: I've defined it as:
>> +# define INT80_CLOBBERS , "r8", "r9", "r10", "r11"
>>
>> But that hanging comma looks awful, so I added "flags" there.
>> And if I do define it without coma and leave it in asm statement,
>> 32-bit version would be unhappy.
>> So, I found that it's easier to define it with flags included.
>>
>
> Woudl the right answer be to get rid of "flags" in the test where it
> appears? I'm not sure it's needed in the first place.
>

I think it can live without it.
But I didn't want to change it in the same patch and wasn't sure if I
fail to see the reason for it.
So, I'll resend with flags removing, thanks.

--
Dmitry

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