linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: drop bogus "cc" clobber from __try_cmpxchg_user

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Date:   Tue, 7 Jun 2022 17:16:52 +0200
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...e.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: drop bogus "cc" clobber from
 __try_cmpxchg_user_asm()

On 6/7/22 17:00, Jan Beulich wrote:
> As noted (and fixed) a couple of times in the past, "=@cc<cond>" outputs
> and clobbering of "cc" don't work well together. The compiler appears to
> mean to reject such, but doesn't - in its upstream form - quite manage
> to yet for "cc". Furthermore two similar macros don't clobber "cc", and
> clobbering "cc" is pointless in asm()-s for x86 anyway - the compiler
> always assumes status flags to be clobbered there.
> 
> Fixes: 989b5db215a2 ("x86/uaccess: Implement macros for CMPXCHG on user addresses")
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...e.com>
> ---
> The change I continue to carry locally actually allows specifying that
> "cc" is _not_ clobbered; it only happens to improve detection of bad
> situations like the one here.
> 
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h
> @@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ do {									\
>   		       [ptr] "+m" (*_ptr),				\
>   		       [old] "+a" (__old)				\
>   		     : [new] ltype (__new)				\
> -		     : "memory", "cc");					\
> +		     : "memory");					\
>   	if (unlikely(__err))						\
>   		goto label;						\
>   	if (unlikely(!success))						\
> 

Queued, thanks.

Paolo