linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 09/10] x86/entry/64: Stop using int_ret_from_sys_call in ret_from

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Date:	Thu, 28 Jan 2016 15:11:27 -0800
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
To:	x86@...nel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 09/10] x86/entry/64: Stop using int_ret_from_sys_call in ret_from_fork

ret_from_fork is now open-coded and is no longer tangled up with the
syscall code.  This isn't so bad -- this adds very little code, and
IMO the result is much easier to understand.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 35 +++++++++++++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
index f7050a5d9dbc..cb5d940a7abd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
@@ -390,7 +390,6 @@ END(ptregs_\func)
  * rdi: prev task we switched from
  */
 ENTRY(ret_from_fork)
-
 	LOCK ; btr $TIF_FORK, TI_flags(%r8)
 
 	pushq	$0x0002
@@ -398,28 +397,32 @@ ENTRY(ret_from_fork)
 
 	call	schedule_tail			/* rdi: 'prev' task parameter */
 
-	RESTORE_EXTRA_REGS
-
 	testb	$3, CS(%rsp)			/* from kernel_thread? */
+	jnz	1f
 
 	/*
-	 * By the time we get here, we have no idea whether our pt_regs,
-	 * ti flags, and ti status came from the 64-bit SYSCALL fast path,
-	 * the slow path, or one of the 32-bit compat paths.
-	 * Use IRET code path to return, since it can safely handle
-	 * all of the above.
+	 * We came from kernel_thread.  This code path is quite twisted, and
+	 * someone should clean it up.
+	 *
+	 * copy_thread_tls stashes the function pointer in RBX and the
+	 * parameter to be passed in RBP.  The called function is permitted
+	 * to call do_execve and thereby jump to user mode.
 	 */
-	jnz	int_ret_from_sys_call
+	movq	RBP(%rsp), %rdi
+	call	*RBX(%rsp)
+	movl	$0, RAX(%rsp)
 
 	/*
-	 * We came from kernel_thread
-	 * nb: we depend on RESTORE_EXTRA_REGS above
+	 * Fall through as though we're exiting a syscall.  This makes a
+	 * twisted sort of sense if we just called do_execve.
 	 */
-	movq	%rbp, %rdi
-	call	*%rbx
-	movl	$0, RAX(%rsp)
-	RESTORE_EXTRA_REGS
-	jmp	int_ret_from_sys_call
+
+1:
+	movq	%rsp, %rdi
+	call	syscall_return_slowpath	/* returns with IRQs disabled */
+	TRACE_IRQS_ON			/* user mode is traced as IRQS on */
+	SWAPGS
+	jmp	restore_regs_and_iret
 END(ret_from_fork)
 
 /*
-- 
2.5.0