From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
x86@kernel.org, live-patching@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>,
linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 06/10] x86/asm/efi: Fix asmvalidate warnings for efi_stub_64.S
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 21:24:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150612192441.GL9084@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150611131438.GB19243@codeblueprint.co.uk>
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 02:14:39PM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
> Yeah, fair enough. Though it's worth noting that because we're calling
> firmware functions, which use the Microsoft ABI, %rbp will be saved by
> the callee function if used.
Yeah, just looked at the spec.
But you know how we don't trust specs. So we get additional paranoid
security that callee won't futz with RBP because we save it before
calling. But we pay the additional penalty in the CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER
case.
Oh what the hell, the 3 additional insns shouldn't be noticeable.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-12 19:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-10 12:06 [PATCH v5 00/10] x86/asm: Compile-time asm code validation Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 12:06 ` [PATCH v5 01/10] x86/asm: Add FP_SAVE/RESTORE frame pointer macros Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 18:17 ` Pavel Machek
2015-06-10 18:24 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-11 4:22 ` Jiri Kosina
2015-06-11 6:46 ` Pavel Machek
2015-06-11 12:06 ` Jiri Kosina
2015-06-11 14:18 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 12:06 ` [PATCH v5 02/10] x86: Compile-time asm code validation Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 17:21 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-06-10 17:53 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 18:15 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-06-10 18:58 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 22:17 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-11 6:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-06-11 14:01 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-11 6:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-06-11 14:10 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-12 11:18 ` Pedro Alves
2015-06-12 14:10 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-12 16:00 ` Pedro Alves
2015-06-12 16:41 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 18:16 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2015-06-10 18:18 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-06-10 12:06 ` [PATCH v5 03/10] x86/asm/entry: Fix asmvalidate warnings for entry_64_compat.S Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 12:06 ` [PATCH v5 04/10] x86/asm/crypto: Fix asmvalidate warnings for aesni-intel_asm.S Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 12:06 ` [PATCH v5 05/10] x86/asm/crypto: Fix asmvalidate warnings for ghash-clmulni-intel_asm.S Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 12:06 ` [PATCH v5 06/10] x86/asm/efi: Fix asmvalidate warnings for efi_stub_64.S Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-11 13:14 ` Matt Fleming
2015-06-12 19:24 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2015-06-10 12:06 ` [PATCH v5 07/10] x86/asm/acpi: Fix asmvalidate warnings for wakeup_64.S Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 13:19 ` Pavel Machek
2015-06-10 14:08 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-11 12:36 ` Pavel Machek
2015-06-10 13:21 ` Pavel Machek
2015-06-10 14:13 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-11 6:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-06-10 12:06 ` [PATCH v5 08/10] x86/asm/head: Fix asmvalidate warnings for head_64.S Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 12:06 ` [PATCH v5 09/10] x86/asm/lib: Fix asmvalidate warnings for lib functions Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 12:06 ` [PATCH v5 10/10] x86/asm/lib: Fix asmvalidate warnings for rwsem.S Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 12:16 ` [PATCH v5 00/10] x86/asm: Compile-time asm code validation Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 13:08 ` Andi Kleen
2015-06-10 13:52 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 14:11 ` Andi Kleen
2015-06-10 14:32 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 15:04 ` Andi Kleen
2015-06-10 15:31 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 16:50 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 18:41 ` Andi Kleen
2015-06-10 19:43 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 18:40 ` Andi Kleen
2015-06-10 19:36 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 19:38 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-06-10 19:51 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 13:42 ` Pavel Machek
2015-06-10 14:20 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 18:24 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-06-10 20:26 ` Josh Poimboeuf
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