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SubjectRe: [PATCH 4/4] x86,module: Detect CRn and DRn manipulation
On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 10:01:04AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 01:02:40PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Since we now have infrastructure to analyze module text, disallow
> > modules that write to CRn and DRn registers.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
> > ---
> > arch/x86/kernel/module.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
> >
> > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/module.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/module.c
> > @@ -266,6 +266,22 @@ static bool insn_is_vmx(struct insn *ins
> > return false;
> > }
> >
> > +static bool insn_is_mov_CRn(struct insn *insn)
> > +{
> > + if (insn->opcode.bytes[0] == 0x0f && insn->opcode.bytes[1] == 0x22)
> > + return true;
>
> I always cringe at numeric literals. Would it be overkill to add defines
> for these (and the others that have comments next to them in 3/4)? It
> makes stuff easier to grep, etc. (e.g. we have register names in
> arch/x86/include/asm/asm.h, do we need instruction names somewhere else?
> I assume objtool has a bunch of this too...)

objtool does not, have a peek at tools/objtool/arch/x86/decode.c

I'm not sure what the best way is here, the x86 opcode map is a
disaster. Even the mnemonic doesn't help us here, as that's just MOV :/

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