Re: [PATCH] i386/audit: stop scribbling on the stack frame

[Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>]

On 10/22/2014 09:04 PM, Eric Paris wrote:
> git commit b4f0d3755c5e9cc86292d5fd78261903b4f23d4a was very very dumb.
> It was writing over %esp/pt_regs semi-randomly on i686  with the expected
> "system can't boot" results.  As noted in:
> 
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85277
> 
> This patch stops fscking with pt_regs.  Instead it sets up the registers
> for the call to __audit_syscall_entry in the most obvious conceivable
> way.  It then does just a tiny tiny touch of magic.  We need to get what
> started in PT_EDX into 0(%esp) and PT_ESI into 4(%esp).  This is as easy
> as a pair of pushes.
> 
> After the call to __audit_syscall_entry all we need to do is get that
> now useless junk off the stack (pair of pops) and reload %eax with the
> original syscall so other stuff can keep going about it's business.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
> Cc: x86@kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S | 15 +++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
> index f9e3fab..fb01d22 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
> @@ -447,15 +447,14 @@ sysenter_exit:
>  sysenter_audit:
>  	testl $(_TIF_WORK_SYSCALL_ENTRY & ~_TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT),TI_flags(%ebp)
>  	jnz syscall_trace_entry
> -	addl $4,%esp
> -	CFI_ADJUST_CFA_OFFSET -4
> -	movl %esi,4(%esp)		/* 5th arg: 4th syscall arg */
> -	movl %edx,(%esp)		/* 4th arg: 3rd syscall arg */
> -	/* %ecx already in %ecx		   3rd arg: 2nd syscall arg */
> -	movl %ebx,%edx			/* 2nd arg: 1st syscall arg */
> -	/* %eax already in %eax		   1st arg: syscall number */
> +	/* movl PT_EAX(%esp), %eax	already set, syscall number: 1st arg to audit */
> +	movl PT_EBX(%esp), %edx		/* ebx/a0: 2nd arg to audit */
> +	/* movl PT_ECX(%esp), %ecx	already set, a1: 3nd arg to audit */
> +	pushl_cfi PT_ESI(%esp)		/* a3: 5th arg */
> +	pushl_cfi PT_EDX+4(%esp)	/* a2: 4th arg */
>  	call __audit_syscall_entry
> -	pushl_cfi %ebx
> +	popl_cfi %ecx /* get that remapped edx off the stack */
> +	popl_cfi %ecx /* get that remapped esi off the stack */
>  	movl PT_EAX(%esp),%eax		/* reload syscall number */
>  	jmp sysenter_do_call
>  
> 

This looks reasonably likely to be correct, but this code is complicated
and now ever slower.

How hard would it be to just delete it and replace it with a
straightforward two-phase trace invocation a la x86_64?

--Andy