linux-kernel - Re: Q: put_user_try & co (Was: [PATCH 1/5] Split wait_noreap

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Thu, 21 May 2009 15:42:35 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@...jp.nec.com>,
	Vitaly Mayatskikh <v.mayatskih@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: Q: put_user_try & co (Was: [PATCH 1/5] Split
	wait_noreap_copyout())

On 05/20, Roland McGrath wrote:
>
> > 	#define __put_user_asm_ex(...)				\
> > 		asm volatile(					\
> > 			"1:	mov ..."			\
> > 			_ASM_EXTABLE(1b, &__efault_label)	\
> > 		     	: : ...)
>
> You mean &&__efault_label here (it's a funny syntax, but that's how it is).
> &&label is a GCC extension that I'm not sure the kernel has used before.
>
> I think it can be touchy to have an asm jump into compiled code that way.
> e.g., perhaps the compiler produced:
>
> 	mov reg, 40(sp)
> 	mov $123, reg
> 	#APP
> 	... inside of your asm ...
> 	#NO_APP
> 	mov 40(sp), reg
>
> or some such thing.  If you jump away from inside the asm, you won't ever
> do "mov 40(sp), reg".  But the compiler might think that reg has its
> original value at the __efault_label: code location.
>
> Perhaps more important than any particular compiler-confusion scenario we
> can come up with is simply that this would be an obscure corner of code
> generation in the compiler that the kernel has not evoked before.  There
> might be bugs or oddities in various compilers of various vintages, that
> we don't know about because they never came up before.

Yes, agreed. Thanks to all for replies.

Oleg.

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/