Re: [PATCH] x86/cpu/vmware: use the full form of inl in VMWARE_PORT

From: Kees Cook
Date: Mon Oct 07 2019 - 20:44:50 EST


On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 12:21:29PM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> LLVM's assembler doesn't accept the short form inl (%%dx) instruction,
> but instead insists on the output register to be explicitly specified:
>
> <inline asm>:1:7: error: invalid operand for instruction
> inl (%dx)
> ^
> LLVM ERROR: Error parsing inline asm
>
> Use the full form of the instruction to fix the build.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

-Kees

> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c
> index 9735139cfdf8..46d732696c1c 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c
> @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
> #define VMWARE_CMD_VCPU_RESERVED 31
>
> #define VMWARE_PORT(cmd, eax, ebx, ecx, edx) \
> - __asm__("inl (%%dx)" : \
> + __asm__("inl (%%dx), %%eax" : \
> "=a"(eax), "=c"(ecx), "=d"(edx), "=b"(ebx) : \
> "a"(VMWARE_HYPERVISOR_MAGIC), \
> "c"(VMWARE_CMD_##cmd), \
> --
> 2.23.0.581.g78d2f28ef7-goog
>

--
Kees Cook