linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: introduce push/pop macros which generate CFI_REL_OFFSET and CFI

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Message-ID: <CALCETrUVXGnqqtgw1eZRK5g0B+5vwGuvSV6dwnm5witA-fJWLQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 12 Jan 2015 11:46:53 -0800
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>,
	Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: introduce push/pop macros which generate
 CFI_REL_OFFSET and CFI_RESTORE

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> wrote:
> Andy, please trim your replies.
>
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 11:25:39AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> I think that some users don't want the CFI_REL_OFFSET.
>
> Why? I thought those two annotations are independent? As you said:
>
> "IOW, one is to keep the stack frame tracking consistent and the other
> is to tell the unwinder about the register we just saved."
>
> Sounds to me like we want both...
>

Dumb example:

    pushq_cfi $__KERNEL_DS /* ss */

This doesn't save anything that the unwinder would care about.

Better example:

    pushq_cfi \child_rip /* rip */
    CFI_REL_OFFSET    rip,0

Doing this with a macro would need a fancier macro.

Then there's crap like:

    pushq_cfi %rdi
    SCHEDULE_USER
    popq_cfi %rdi

I would need to look a lot more carefully to figure out whether this
would need CFI_REL_OFFSET.

If we actually had a DWARF unwinder in the kernel, maybe we could have
real test cases :-/

--Andy
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