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Message-ID: <YhUsQZUqgb94EjmD@lakrids>
Date:   Tue, 22 Feb 2022 18:32:33 +0000
From:   Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
To:     Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@...gle.com>
Cc:     will@...nel.org, maz@...nel.org, qperret@...gle.com,
        tabba@...gle.com, surenb@...gle.com, kernel-team@...roid.com,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@....com>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
        Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>,
        Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@....com>,
        Peter Collingbourne <pcc@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Scull <ascull@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/9] arm64: asm: Introduce test_sp_overflow macro

On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 08:51:06AM -0800, Kalesh Singh wrote:
> From: Quentin Perret <qperret@...gle.com>
> 
> The asm entry code in the kernel uses a trick to check if VMAP'd stacks
> have overflowed by aligning them at THREAD_SHIFT * 2 granularity and
> checking the SP's THREAD_SHIFT bit.
> 
> Protected KVM will soon make use of a similar trick to detect stack
> overflows, so factor out the asm code in a re-usable macro.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@...gle.com>
> [Kalesh - Resolve minor conflicts]
> Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@...gle.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h | 11 +++++++++++
>  arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S          |  7 +------
>  2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
> index e8bd0af0141c..ad40eb0eee83 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
> @@ -850,4 +850,15 @@ alternative_endif
>  
>  #endif /* GNU_PROPERTY_AARCH64_FEATURE_1_DEFAULT */
>  
> +/*
> + * Test whether the SP has overflowed, without corrupting a GPR.
> + */
> +.macro test_sp_overflow shift, label
> +	add	sp, sp, x0			// sp' = sp + x0
> +	sub	x0, sp, x0			// x0' = sp' - x0 = (sp + x0) - x0 = sp
> +	tbnz	x0, #\shift, \label
> +	sub	x0, sp, x0			// x0'' = sp' - x0' = (sp + x0) - sp = x0
> +	sub	sp, sp, x0			// sp'' = sp' - x0 = (sp + x0) - x0 = sp
> +.endm

I'm a little unhappy about factoring this out, since it's not really
self-contained and leaves sp and x0 partially-swapped when it branches
to the label. You can't really make that clear with comments on the
macro, and you need comments at each use-sire, so I'd ratehr we just
open-coded a copy of this.

> +
>  #endif	/* __ASM_ASSEMBLER_H */
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
> index 772ec2ecf488..ce99ee30c77e 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
> @@ -53,15 +53,10 @@ alternative_else_nop_endif
>  	sub	sp, sp, #PT_REGS_SIZE
>  #ifdef CONFIG_VMAP_STACK
>  	/*
> -	 * Test whether the SP has overflowed, without corrupting a GPR.
>  	 * Task and IRQ stacks are aligned so that SP & (1 << THREAD_SHIFT)
>  	 * should always be zero.
>  	 */
> -	add	sp, sp, x0			// sp' = sp + x0
> -	sub	x0, sp, x0			// x0' = sp' - x0 = (sp + x0) - x0 = sp
> -	tbnz	x0, #THREAD_SHIFT, 0f
> -	sub	x0, sp, x0			// x0'' = sp' - x0' = (sp + x0) - sp = x0
> -	sub	sp, sp, x0			// sp'' = sp' - x0 = (sp + x0) - x0 = sp
> +	test_sp_overflow THREAD_SHIFT, 0f
>  	b	el\el\ht\()_\regsize\()_\label
>  
>  0:

Further to my comment above, immediately after this we have:

	/* Stash the original SP (minus PT_REGS_SIZE) in tpidr_el0. */
	msr     tpidr_el0, x0

	/* Recover the original x0 value and stash it in tpidrro_el0 */
	sub     x0, sp, x0
	msr     tpidrro_el0, x0

... which is really surprising with the `test_sp_overflow` macro because
it's not clear that modifies x0 and sp in this way.

Thanks,
Mark.
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