Re: [PATCH -tip v3 1/2] kcov: Make runtime functions noinstr-compatible

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Jun 15 2020 - 11:21:10 EST


On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 05:03:27PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> Yes, I think so. x86_64 needs lib/memcpy_64.S in .noinstr.text then. For
> i386 it's an __always_inline inline-asm thing.

Bah, I tried writing it without memcpy, but clang inserts memcpy anyway
:/

---
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
index af75109485c26..d74fd6313a4ed 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
@@ -686,17 +686,17 @@ struct bad_iret_stack *fixup_bad_iret(struct bad_iret_stack *s)
* just below the IRET frame) and we want to pretend that the
* exception came from the IRET target.
*/
- struct bad_iret_stack tmp, *new_stack =
+ struct bad_iret_stack tmp = *s, *new_stack =
(struct bad_iret_stack *)__this_cpu_read(cpu_tss_rw.x86_tss.sp0) - 1;
+ unsigned long *p = (unsigned long *)s->regs.sp;

- /* Copy the IRET target to the temporary storage. */
- memcpy(&tmp.regs.ip, (void *)s->regs.sp, 5*8);
+ tmp.regs.ip = p[0];
+ tmp.regs.cs = p[1];
+ tmp.regs.flags = p[2];
+ tmp.regs.sp = p[3];
+ tmp.regs.ss = p[4];

- /* Copy the remainder of the stack from the current stack. */
- memcpy(&tmp, s, offsetof(struct bad_iret_stack, regs.ip));
-
- /* Update the entry stack */
- memcpy(new_stack, &tmp, sizeof(tmp));
+ *new_stack = tmp;

BUG_ON(!user_mode(&new_stack->regs));
return new_stack;