Thread (222 messages) 222 messages, 21 authors, 2022-11-03

Re: [PATCH v2 26/39] x86/cet/shstk: Introduce routines modifying shstk

From: Andrew Cooper <hidden>
Date: 2022-10-05 02:45:02
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On 29/09/2022 23:29, Rick Edgecombe wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h
index 35f709f619fb..f096f52bd059 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h
@@ -223,6 +223,19 @@ static inline void clwb(volatile void *__p)
 		: [pax] "a" (p));
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_SHADOW_STACK
+static inline int write_user_shstk_64(u64 __user *addr, u64 val)
+{
+	asm_volatile_goto("1: wrussq %[val], (%[addr])\n"
+			  _ASM_EXTABLE(1b, %l[fail])
+			  :: [addr] "r" (addr), [val] "r" (val)
+			  :: fail);
"1: wrssq %[val], %[addr]\n"
_ASM_EXTABLE(1b, %l[fail])
: [addr] "+m" (*addr)
: [val] "r" (val)
:: fail

Otherwise you've failed to tell the compiler that you wrote to *addr.

With that fixed, it's not volatile because there are no unexpressed side
effects.

~Andrew
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