Re: [PATCH v3] arm64: sysreg: make mrs_s and msr_s macros work with Clang and LTO

[Kees Cook]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 11:15 AM Nick Desaulniers
<ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 7:12 AM Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 10:44:10AM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 9:03 PM Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 12:08 PM Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 10:22:27AM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > > > > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 10:06 AM Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > > > It would be nice if we could simply rely on a more recent binutils these
> > > > > > > days, which supports the generic S<op0>_<op1>_<cn>_<Cm>_<op2> sysreg
> > > > > > > definition. That would mean we could get rid of the whole msr_s/mrs_s
> > > > > > > hack by turning that into a CPP macro which built that name.
> > >
> > > Mark, can you give me a test case for this? I'd like to check if
> > > clang's integrated assembler supports this or not, so we can file an
> > > issue and fix it if not.
> >
> > The below is a smoke test. The entire op0:op1:cn:cm:op2 space is 14
> > bits, so it should be feasible to generate and run an exhautive test for
> > all encodings.
> >
> > I've included SYS and SYSL here too, since I strongly suspect we'll need
> > those going forward.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Mark.
> >
> > ---->8----
> > /*
> >  * ${CC} -c test.c
> >  *
> >  * OLD_* encodings already exist, NEW_* encodings haven't yet be
> >  * allocated (per ARM DDI 0487D.a), but should assemble. All encodings
> >  * chosen arbitrarily.
> >  */
> >
> > // OSDTRRX_EL1
> > #define OLD_DBG_REG     "s2_0_c0_c0_2"
> > #define NEW_DBG_REG     "s2_7_c0_c15_0"
> >
> > // MIDR_EL1
> > #define OLD_SYS_REG     "s3_0_c0_c0_0"
> > #define NEW_SYS_REG     "s3_6_c1_c0_7"
> >
> > #define REG(r)                                  \
> >         asm volatile("msr " r ", xzr\n");       \
> >         asm volatile("mrs xzr, " r "\n")
> >
> > // DC IVAC, XZR
> > #define OLD_SYS "#0, c7, c6, #1"
> > #define NEW_SYS "#7, c15, c15, #7"
> >
> > #define NEW_SYSL_MIN    "#0, c0, c0, #0"
> > #define NEW_SYSL_MAX    "#7, c15, c15, #7"
> >
> > #define SYS(s)  asm volatile("sys " s ", xzr\n")
> > #define SYSL(s) asm volatile("sysl xzr, " s "\n")
> >
> > void test(void)
> > {
> >         REG(OLD_DBG_REG);
> >         REG(NEW_DBG_REG);
> >
> >         REG(OLD_SYS_REG);
> >         REG(NEW_SYS_REG);
> >
> >         SYS(OLD_SYS);
> >         SYS(NEW_SYS);
> >
> >         SYSL(NEW_SYSL_MIN);
> >         SYSL(NEW_SYSL_MAX);
> > }
>
> Hmmm...yes looks like Clang's integrated assembler is missing support.
> https://godbolt.org/z/wDBpz4
> https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41573
> https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/453
> We'll follow up on getting that fixed.
>
> Kees, are you able to respin the patch with the above requested
> changes from Mark to the macros?  Let me know what I can do to help.

Doesn't this mean arm64 must raise their minimum binutils to 2.25? Is
that acceptable? I hadn't seen that question answered yet. (Maybe I
missed it?)

-- 
Kees Cook