Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/paravirt: add extra clobbers with ZERO_CALL_USED_REGS enabled

[Kees Cook]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2022 at 10:50:03AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 11:00:07PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 4, 2022 at 11:02 PM Bill Wendling <morbo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, Sep 3, 2022 at 12:18 AM Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Sep 02, 2022 at 09:37:50PM +0000, Bill Wendling wrote:
> > > > > [...]
> > > > >         callq   *pv_ops+536(%rip)
> > > >
> > > > Do you know which pv_ops function is this? I can't figure out where
> > > > pte_offset_kernel() gets converted into a pv_ops call....
> > > >
> > > This one is _paravirt_ident_64, I believe. I think that the original
> > > issue Nathan was seeing was with another seemingly innocuous function.
> > 
> > _paravirt_ident_64 is marked noinstr, which makes me suspect that it
> > really needs to not be touched at all by the compiler for
> > these...special features.
> 
> My source tree sayeth:
> 
>   u64 notrace _paravirt_ident_64(u64 x)

I don't see noinstr either. But it seems a reasonable thing to do?

Bill, does fixing up the noinstr macro and adding it here fix the
problem?

-- 
Kees Cook