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Message-ID: <CAJF2gTSYhX1Yh_BZTOxgvOpKeaBSrxfnQ-LfUCh7Qiy58SgJkg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 7 Jan 2023 19:49:05 +0800
From:   Guo Ren <guoren@...nel.org>
To:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Cc:     arnd@...db.de, palmer@...osinc.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
        peterz@...radead.org, luto@...nel.org, conor.dooley@...rochip.com,
        heiko@...ech.de, jszhang@...nel.org, lazyparser@...il.com,
        falcon@...ylab.org, chenhuacai@...nel.org, apatel@...tanamicro.com,
        atishp@...shpatra.org, ben@...adent.org.uk, bjorn@...nel.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        Guo Ren <guoren@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Björn Töpel <bjorn@...osinc.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next V12 3/7] riscv: entry: Add noinstr to prevent
 instrumentation inserted

On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 7:55 PM Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 02, 2023 at 10:35:27PM -0500, guoren@...nel.org wrote:
> > From: Guo Ren <guoren@...ux.alibaba.com>
> >
> > Without noinstr the compiler is free to insert instrumentation (think
> > all the k*SAN, KCov, GCov, ftrace etc..) which can call code we're not
> > yet ready to run this early in the entry path, for instance it could
> > rely on RCU which isn't on yet, or expect lockdep state. (by peterz)
>
> That's generally true, and makes sense to me, but ....
>
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/YxcQ6NoPf3AH0EXe@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net/
> > Reviewed-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn@...osinc.com>
> > Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
> > Tested-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@...nel.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@...ux.alibaba.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@...nel.org>
> > ---
> >  arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c | 4 ++--
> >  arch/riscv/mm/fault.c     | 2 +-
> >  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c
> > index 549bde5c970a..96ec76c54ff2 100644
> > --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c
> > +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c
> > @@ -95,9 +95,9 @@ static void do_trap_error(struct pt_regs *regs, int signo, int code,
> >  }
> >
> >  #if defined(CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL) && defined(CONFIG_RISCV_ALTERNATIVE)
> > -#define __trap_section               __section(".xip.traps")
> > +#define __trap_section __noinstr_section(".xip.traps")
> >  #else
> > -#define __trap_section
> > +#define __trap_section noinstr
> >  #endif
> >  #define DO_ERROR_INFO(name, signo, code, str)                                \
> >  asmlinkage __visible __trap_section void name(struct pt_regs *regs)  \
> > diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c b/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c
> > index d86f7cebd4a7..b26f68eac61c 100644
> > --- a/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c
> > +++ b/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c
> > @@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ static inline bool access_error(unsigned long cause, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> >   * This routine handles page faults.  It determines the address and the
> >   * problem, and then passes it off to one of the appropriate routines.
> >   */
> > -asmlinkage void do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs)
> > +asmlinkage void noinstr do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs)
>
> ... why do you need that for do_page_fault? That doesn't (currently) do any
> entry/exit logic, so this seems unnecessary per the commit description.
Yes, the above is unnecessary; I've fixed it in v13.

>
> Thanks,
> Mark.
>
> >  {
> >       struct task_struct *tsk;
> >       struct vm_area_struct *vma;
> > --
> > 2.36.1
> >



-- 
Best Regards
 Guo Ren

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