From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
"Reshetova, Elena" <elena.reshetova@intel.com>,
Network Development <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: tip -ENOBOOT - bisected to locking/refcounts, x86/asm: Implement fast refcount overflow protection
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2017 21:24:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1504293850.6217.4.camel@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5jKiGFAp8Lp2Nt1yHg_nYsY_rfrUjMgOPTNxMLkbQ8V-ng@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 2017-09-01 at 11:58 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>
> The section stuff is supposed to be a trick to push the error case off
> into the .text.unlikely area to avoid needing a jmp over the handler
> and with possibly some redundancy removal done by the compiler (though
> this appears to be rather limited) if it notices a bunch of error
> paths are the same. However, in your disassembly, it's inline (!!) in
> the code, as if "pushsection" and "popsection" were entirely ignored.
>
> And when I make my own in6_dev_getx(), I see the same disassembly:
>
> 0xffffffff818a757b <+181>: lock incl 0x1e0(%rbx)
> 0xffffffff818a7582 <+188>: js 0xffffffff818a7584 <in6_dev_getx+190>
> 0xffffffff818a7584 <+190>: lea 0x1e0(%rbx),%rcx
> 0xffffffff818a758b <+197>: (bad)
>
> Which is VERY different from how it looks in other places!
>
> e.g. from lkdtm_REFCOUNT_INC_SATURATED:
>
> 0xffffffff815657df <+47>: lock incl -0xc(%rbp)
> 0xffffffff815657e3 <+51>: js 0xffffffff81565cac
> ...
> 0xffffffff81565cac: lea -0xc(%rbp),%rcx
> 0xffffffff81565cb0: (bad)
>
> So, at least I can reproduce this in the build now. I must not be
> exercising these paths. FWIW, this is with Ubuntu's 6.3.0 gcc.
>
> I'll try to figure out what's going on here...
Heh, make in6_dev_getx() __always_inline.
swapper/0-1 [000] d..1 1.438587: ip6_route_init_special_entries: PRE refs.counter:3
swapper/0-1 [000] d..1 1.438590: ip6_route_init_special_entries: POST refs.counter:4
swapper/0-1 [000] d..1 1.438591: ip6_route_init_special_entries: PRE refs.counter:4
swapper/0-1 [000] d..1 1.438592: ip6_route_init_special_entries: POST refs.counter:5
swapper/0-1 [000] d..1 1.438592: ip6_route_init_special_entries: PRE refs.counter:5
swapper/0-1 [000] d..1 1.438593: ip6_route_init_special_entries: POST refs.counter:6
-Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-01 19:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-29 8:50 tip -ENOBOOT - bisected to locking/refcounts, x86/asm: Implement fast refcount overflow protection Mike Galbraith
2017-08-29 8:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-08-29 9:21 ` Mike Galbraith
2017-08-29 9:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-08-29 10:03 ` Mike Galbraith
2017-08-29 15:39 ` Kees Cook
2017-08-29 16:34 ` Mike Galbraith
2017-08-29 15:58 ` Kees Cook
2017-08-29 16:55 ` Mike Galbraith
2017-08-29 18:10 ` Mike Galbraith
2017-08-29 18:41 ` Kees Cook
2017-08-30 5:02 ` Mike Galbraith
2017-08-30 16:35 ` Kees Cook
2017-08-30 17:13 ` Mike Galbraith
2017-08-30 17:32 ` Kees Cook
2017-08-30 17:55 ` Mike Galbraith
2017-08-30 19:19 ` Kees Cook
2017-08-30 19:46 ` Kees Cook
2017-08-31 2:09 ` Mike Galbraith
2017-08-31 2:27 ` Kees Cook
2017-08-31 3:12 ` Mike Galbraith
2017-08-31 4:01 ` Kees Cook
2017-08-31 4:10 ` Kees Cook
2017-08-31 4:38 ` Mike Galbraith
2017-08-31 13:58 ` Mike Galbraith
2017-08-31 17:00 ` Kees Cook
2017-08-31 17:19 ` Mike Galbraith
2017-08-31 18:45 ` Kees Cook
2017-09-01 6:57 ` Mike Galbraith
2017-09-01 13:09 ` Mike Galbraith
2017-09-01 17:12 ` Kees Cook
2017-09-01 17:52 ` Mike Galbraith
2017-09-01 18:58 ` Kees Cook
2017-09-01 19:24 ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
2017-09-01 19:40 ` Kees Cook
2017-08-31 19:28 ` Kees Cook
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