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From: peterz@infradead.org
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mbenes@suse.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH] objtool,x86: Verify poke_int3_handler() is self contained
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 10:34:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200728083429.GP119549@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eeowbrto.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>

On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 10:56:03PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> peterz@infradead.org writes:
> > Abuse the SMAP rules to ensure poke_int3_handler() doesn't call out to
> > anything.
> 
> Yuck. Isn't that what noinstr is for or am I missing something?

Well, we don't want poke_int3_handler() to call out to noinstr either.

So noinstr only allows calling noinstr, The above hack only allows it
calling uaccess-safe functions, and the group of functions that is both
noinstr and uaccess-safe is 'small'.

But like I said yesterday, perhaps this wants it own annotation. Then we
can also verify the lack of any dynamic code.

So yes, yuck and a bad idea, ignore this ;-)

      reply	other threads:[~2020-07-28  8:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-27 10:40 [PATCH] objtool,x86: Verify poke_int3_handler() is self contained peterz
2020-07-27 11:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2020-07-27 12:50   ` peterz
2020-07-27 13:11     ` Ingo Molnar
2020-07-27 20:56 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-07-28  8:34   ` peterz [this message]

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