Re: [PATCH urgent] x86, asm: Disable opportunistic SYSRET if regs->flags has TF set

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 11:18:16PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On 04/01/2015 09:25 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > Fix it by using IRET to restore TF.  Since it's late, I'm keeping
> > this minimal and keeping "testq" instead of switching to "testl".
> 
> Changing to "testl" here wins nothing.

Except less data (a dword) being shuffled and tracked for dependencies
in the machine instead of qword.

> Since r11 is used, REX prefix will be encoded anyway.

As a future cleanup, one could use one of the "old", i.e. not-extended
registers to save 2 bytes per insn (REX pfx and ModRM) but one has to
remember to do

	mov %rax, %r11

in the end.

And yep, it should preferrably be %rax as we have opcode 0xa9 which
tests an immediate and RAX and saves us the ModRM as we don't need to
specify a register.

orig:
     a42:       49 f7 c3 00 00 01 00    test   $0x10000,%r11
     a49:       75 41                   jne    a8c <opportunistic_sysret_failed>

Andy:
     a42:       49 f7 c3 00 01 01 00    test   $0x10100,%r11
     a49:       75 41                   jne    a8c <opportunistic_sysret_failed>

testl:
     a42:       41 f7 c3 00 01 01 00    test   $0x10100,%r11d
     a49:       75 41                   jne    a8c <opportunistic_sysret_failed>

%rax:
     a42:       a9 00 01 01 00          test   $0x10100,%eax
     a47:       75 41                   jne    a8a <opportunistic_sysret_failed>

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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