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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Subject: [PATCH] x86-paravirt: prevent gcc from generating the wrong addressing mode
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:24:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49BEEDC2.2070809@goop.org> (raw)

When we generate a call sequence for calling a paravirtualized
function, we presume that the generated code is "call *0xXXXXX",
which is a 6 byte opcode; this is larger than a normal
direct call, and so we can patch a direct call over it.

At the moment, however we give gcc enough rope to hang us by
putting the address in a register and generating a two byte
indirect-via-register call.  Prevent this by explicitly
dereferencing the function pointer and passing it into the
asm as a constant.

This prevents crashes in VMI, as it cannot handle unpatchable
callsites.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h
index d4fec1f..6922d16 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h
@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ extern struct pv_lock_ops pv_lock_ops;
 
 #define paravirt_type(op)				\
 	[paravirt_typenum] "i" (PARAVIRT_PATCH(op)),	\
-	[paravirt_opptr] "m" (op)
+	[paravirt_opptr] "i" (&(op))
 #define paravirt_clobber(clobber)		\
 	[paravirt_clobber] "i" (clobber)
 
@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ int paravirt_disable_iospace(void);
  * offset into the paravirt_patch_template structure, and can therefore be
  * freely converted back into a structure offset.
  */
-#define PARAVIRT_CALL	"call *%[paravirt_opptr];"
+#define PARAVIRT_CALL	"call *%c[paravirt_opptr];"
 
 /*
  * These macros are intended to wrap calls through one of the paravirt



             reply	other threads:[~2009-03-17  0:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-17  0:24 Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2009-03-17  0:59 ` [PATCH] x86-paravirt: prevent gcc from generating the wrong addressing mode Alok Kataria
2009-03-17  2:12 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86, paravirt: " Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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