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Date:   Thu, 7 Mar 2019 11:18:29 -0600
From:   Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/20] objtool: UACCESS validation v3
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On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 09:04:36AM -0800, hpa@zytor.com wrote:
> On March 7, 2019 8:47:05 AM PST, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> wrote:
> >On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 02:13:12PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >> On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 01:55:26PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >> > On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 01:03:17PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >> 
> >> 
> >> > > 01be     20d3:  31 c0                   xor    %eax,%eax
> >> > > 01c0     20d5:  4c 39 eb                cmp    %r13,%rbx
> >> > > 01c3     20d8:  77 08                   ja     20e2
> ><__do_sys_waitid+0x1cd>
> >> 
> >> randconfig-build/kernel/exit.o: warning: objtool:  
> >__do_sys_waitid()+0x1c3: (branch)
> >> 
> >> > > 01cd     20e2:	83 f0 01             	xor    $0x1,%eax
> >> > > 01d0     20e5:	48 89 c2             	mov    %rax,%rdx
> >> > > 01d3     20e8:	83 e2 01             	and    $0x1,%edx
> >> > > 01d6     20eb:	48 83 c2 02          	add    $0x2,%rdx
> >> > > 01da     20ef:	48 ff 04 d5 00 00 00 	incq   0x0(,%rdx,8)
> >> > > 01e1     20f6:	00 
> >> > > 01de 			20f3: R_X86_64_32S	_ftrace_branch+0x148
> >> > > 01e2     20f7:	84 c0                	test   %al,%al
> >> > > 01e4     20f9:	75 2d                	jne    2128
> ><__do_sys_waitid+0x213>
> >> > 
> >> > we do not take this branch and fall-through.
> >> 
> >> And that is the error, I think. We should've taken it and went to:
> >> 
> >>   return -EFAULT;
> >> 
> >> because:
> >> 
> >>  +1be	xor  %eax,%eax	eax=0
> >>  +1cd   xor  $0x1,%eax	eax=1
> >>  +1e2   test %al,%al	1&1==1 -> ZF=0
> >>  +1e4   jnz
> >> 
> >> Is an unconditional code sequence, but there's no way objtool can do
> >> that without becoming a full blown interpreter :/
> >> 
> >> > > 0213     2128:  49 c7 c7 f2 ff ff ff    mov   
> >$0xfffffffffffffff2,%r15
> >> > > ffffffffffffe0eb }
> >> > > 021a     212f:  48 8d 65 d8             lea    -0x28(%rbp),%rsp
> >> > > 021e     2133:  4c 89 f8                mov    %r15,%rax
> >> > > 0221     2136:  5b                      pop    %rbx
> >> > > 0222     2137:  41 5c                   pop    %r12
> >> > > 0224     2139:  41 5d                   pop    %r13
> >> > > 0226     213b:  41 5e                   pop    %r14
> >> > > 0228     213d:  41 5f                   pop    %r15
> >> > > 022a     213f:  5d                      pop    %rbp
> >> > > 022b     2140:  c3                      retq
> >
> >This "fixes" it, and also seems to help -Os make much code:
> >
> >diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
> >index 445348facea9..8de63db58fdd 100644
> >--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
> >+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
> >@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_likely_data
> >*f, int val,
> > 				.line = __LINE__,			\
> > 			};						\
> > 		______r = !!(cond);					\
> >-		______f.miss_hit[______r]++;					\
> >+		if (______r) ______f.miss_hit[1]++; else ______f.miss_hit[0]++; \
> > 		______r;						\
> > 	}))
> > #endif /* CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES */
> 
> if (cond)?  Or is ___r used elsewhere?

______r is also the return value.  And it's needed because cond should
only be evaluated once.

-- 
Josh