linux-kernel - Re: remove the last set_fs() in common code, and remove it for x86 and powerpc v2

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

Date:   Wed, 2 Sep 2020 10:10:03 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: remove the last set_fs() in common code, and remove it for x86
 and powerpc v2

On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 06:25:12PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 07:13:00PM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> 
> >     10.92%  dd       [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] iov_iter_zero
> 
> Interesting...  Could you get an instruction-level profile inside iov_iter_zero(),
> along with the disassembly of that sucker?

So the interesting thing here is with that none of these code paths
should have changed at all, and the biggest items on the profile look
the same modulo some minor reordering.