linux-kernel - Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in handle_external_interrupt

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Date:   Mon, 23 Mar 2020 12:30:53 -0700
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
Cc:     Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
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        "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>,
        Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
Subject: Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in handle_external_interrupt_irqoff

On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 11:49 AM Nick Desaulniers
<ndesaulniers@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> So maybe we can find why
> commit 76b043848fd2 ("x86/retpoline: Add initial retpoline support")
> added THUNK_TARGET with and without "m" constraint, and either:
> - remove "m" from THUNK_TARGET. (Maybe this doesn't compile somewhere)
> or
> - use my above recommendation locally avoiding THUNK_TARGET.  We can
> use "r" rather than "a" (what Clang would have picked) or "b (what GCC
> would have picked) to give the compilers maximal flexibility.

So I've sent a patch for the latter; my reason for not pursuing the former is:
1. I assume that the thunk target could be spilled, or a pointer, and
we'd like to keep flexibility for the general case of inline asm that
doesn't modify the stack pointer.
2. `entry` is local to `handle_external_interrupt_irqoff`; it's not
being passed in via pointer as a function parameter.
3. register pressure is irrelevant if the resulting code is incorrect.
-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers