linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86/kprobes: Fix frame pointer annotations

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Message-ID: <20190510121445.GS2589@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Fri, 10 May 2019 14:14:45 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Cc:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Nicolai Stange <nstange@...e.de>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>,
        Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...hat.com>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
        Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Nayna Jain <nayna@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86/kprobes: Fix frame pointer annotations

On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 12:21:03PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> On Thu, 9 May 2019 13:43:16 -0400
> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 09:20:06AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > > > +END(call_to_exception_trampoline)
> > > > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c
> > > > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c
> > > > @@ -731,29 +731,8 @@ asm(
> > > >    ".global kretprobe_trampoline\n"
> > > >    ".type kretprobe_trampoline, @function\n"
> > > >    "kretprobe_trampoline:\n"
> > > > -    /* We don't bother saving the ss register */
> > > > -#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
> > > > -    "    pushq %rsp\n"
> > > > -    "    pushfq\n"
> > > > -    SAVE_REGS_STRING
> > > > -    "    movq %rsp, %rdi\n"
> > > > -    "    call trampoline_handler\n"
> > > > -    /* Replace saved sp with true return address. */
> > > > -    "    movq %rax, 19*8(%rsp)\n"
> > > > -    RESTORE_REGS_STRING
> > > > -    "    popfq\n"
> > > > -#else
> > > > -    "    pushl %esp\n"
> > > > -    "    pushfl\n"
> > > > -    SAVE_REGS_STRING
> > > > -    "    movl %esp, %eax\n"
> > > > -    "    call trampoline_handler\n"
> > > > -    /* Replace saved sp with true return address. */
> > > > -    "    movl %eax, 15*4(%esp)\n"
> > > > -    RESTORE_REGS_STRING
> > > > -    "    popfl\n"
> > > > -#endif
> > > > -    "    ret\n"
> > > > +    "push trampoline_handler\n"
> > > > +    "jmp call_to_exception_trampoline\n"
> > > >    ".size kretprobe_trampoline, .-kretprobe_trampoline\n"
> > > > );
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Potentially minor nit: you’re doing popfl, but you’re not doing TRACE_IRQ_whatever.  This makes me think that you should either add the tracing (ugh!) or you should maybe just skip the popfl.
> > 
> > 
> > Note, kprobes (and ftrace for that matter) are not saving flags for
> > interrupts, but because it must not modify the sign, zero and carry flags.

Uh, C ABI considers those clobbered over function calls, surely. Relying
on those flags over a CALL would be _insane_.