Re: [PATCH v8 06/11] x86/CPU: Adapt assembly for PIE support

From: Thomas Garnier
Date: Tue Jul 09 2019 - 14:48:05 EST


On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 11:39 AM Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 12:35:13PM -0700, Thomas Garnier wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 12:09 PM Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Thomas Garnier wrote:
> > > > - "pushq $1f\n\t"
> > > > + "movabsq $1f, %q0\n\t"
> > > > + "pushq %q0\n\t"
> > > > "iretq\n\t"
> > > > UNWIND_HINT_RESTORE
> > > > "1:"
> > >
> > > Fake PIE. True PIE looks like this:
> >
> > I used movabsq in couple assembly changes where the memory context is
> > unclear and relative reference might lead to issues. It happened on
> > early boot and hibernation save/restore paths. Do you think a relative
> > reference in this function will always be accurate?
>
> As long as iretq target is not too far it should be OK.
>
> I'm not really sure which issues can pop up.
>
> IRETQ is 64-bit only, RIP-relative addressing is 64-bit only.
> Assembler (hopefully) will error compilation if target is too far.
>
> And it is shorter than movabsq.

Agree, I will change it and run some tests for the next iteration.

>
> > > ffffffff81022d70 <do_sync_core>:
> > > ffffffff81022d70: 8c d0 mov eax,ss
> > > ffffffff81022d72: 50 push rax
> > > ffffffff81022d73: 54 push rsp
> > > ffffffff81022d74: 48 83 04 24 08 add QWORD PTR [rsp],0x8
> > > ffffffff81022d79: 9c pushf
> > > ffffffff81022d7a: 8c c8 mov eax,cs
> > > ffffffff81022d7c: 50 push rax
> > > ffffffff81022d7d: ===> 48 8d 05 03 00 00 00 lea rax,[rip+0x3] # ffffffff81022d87 <do_sync_core+0x17>
> > > ffffffff81022d84: 50 push rax
> > > ffffffff81022d85: 48 cf iretq
> > > ffffffff81022d87: c3 ret
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
> > > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
> > > @@ -710,7 +710,8 @@ static inline void sync_core(void)
> > > "pushfq\n\t"
> > > "mov %%cs, %0\n\t"
> > > "pushq %q0\n\t"
> > > - "pushq $1f\n\t"
> > > + "leaq 1f(%%rip), %q0\n\t"
> > > + "pushq %q0\n\t"
> > > "iretq\n\t"
> > > UNWIND_HINT_RESTORE
> > > "1:"