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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Mirsad Todorovac <mtodorovac69@gmail.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Daniel Sneddon <daniel.sneddon@linux.intel.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>,
	Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>,
	Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/syscall: Avoid memcpy() for ia32 syscall_get_arguments()
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 14:01:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <842a88e0-90ae-48be-91c9-8a7c3a8359a9@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240708202202.work.477-kees@kernel.org>

On 7/8/24 13:22, Kees Cook wrote:
...
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/syscall.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/syscall.h
> index 2fc7bc3863ff..7c488ff0c764 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/syscall.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/syscall.h
> @@ -82,7 +82,12 @@ static inline void syscall_get_arguments(struct task_struct *task,
>  					 struct pt_regs *regs,
>  					 unsigned long *args)
>  {
> -	memcpy(args, &regs->bx, 6 * sizeof(args[0]));
> +	args[0] = regs->bx;
> +	args[1] = regs->cx;
> +	args[2] = regs->dx;
> +	args[3] = regs->si;
> +	args[4] = regs->di;
> +	args[5] = regs->bp;
>  }
>  

Yeah, that's much less magic.  I'll stick this in the queue to go in to
the tree in a few weeks.

Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-07-11 21:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-08 20:22 [PATCH] x86/syscall: Avoid memcpy() for ia32 syscall_get_arguments() Kees Cook
2024-07-08 23:44 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2024-07-09 18:20   ` Mirsad Todorovac
2024-07-09 18:37     ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2024-07-11 21:01 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2024-08-23  0:12   ` Kees Cook
2024-07-11 21:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2024-07-11 23:10   ` Kees Cook
2024-07-12  9:00     ` Peter Zijlstra
2024-07-12 17:55       ` Kees Cook
2024-07-15  8:37         ` Peter Zijlstra
2024-07-15 17:01           ` Kees Cook

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