linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 13/14] x86: BHI stubs

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Message-ID: <54d392d3-32b3-4832-89e1-d2ada1af22a8@citrix.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:23:38 +0100
From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@...rix.com>
To: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>,
 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, alyssa.milburn@...el.com,
 scott.d.constable@...el.com, joao@...rdrivepizza.com,
 jose.marchesi@...cle.com, hjl.tools@...il.com, ndesaulniers@...gle.com,
 samitolvanen@...gle.com, nathan@...nel.org, ojeda@...nel.org,
 kees@...nel.org, alexei.starovoitov@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/14] x86: BHI stubs

On 30/09/2024 10:30 pm, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 09:49:09PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> +/*
>> + * At the function start, launder function arguments that are a pointer through
>> + * CMOVcc, this will create a write dependency in the speculation flow.
>> + *
>> + * Notably, the CFI preambles calling these will have ZF set and r10 zero.
>> + */
>> +
>> +.pushsection .noinstr.text, "ax"
>> +
>> +	.align 8
>> +SYM_CODE_START(__bhi_args_6c1)
>> +	ANNOTATE_NOENDBR
>> +	.align 8
>> +SYM_INNER_LABEL(__bhi_args_0, SYM_L_LOCAL)
>> +	UNWIND_HINT_FUNC
>> +	cmovne %r10, %rdi
> IIUC, this works because if the "jz" in the CFI preamble mispredicts to
> the __bhi_args_* code, "cmovne" will zero out the speculative value of
> rdi.
>
> Why use %r10 instead of a literal $0?  Also how do you know %r10 is 0?

There's no encoding for CMOVcc which takes an $imm.

%r10 is guaranteed zero after the FineIBT prologue, but I don't see
anything in patch 11 which makes this true in the !FineIBT case.

~Andrew