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From: "Mika Penttilä" <mika.penttila@nextfour.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 18:38:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56D716F7.3080407@nextfour.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160302161532.GK16954@pd.tnic>


On 02.03.2016 18:15, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 05:55:14PM +0200, Mika Penttilä wrote:
>>> +	/* Setup a stack for verify_cpu */
>>> +	movq    stack_start - __START_KERNEL_map, %rsp
>>> +	subq	$__START_KERNEL_map, %rsp
>>> +
>> You subtract __START_KERNEL_map twice ?
> Yes. That's not very obvious and it took me a while. I probably should
> add a comment.
>
> Want to stare at it a little bit more and try to figure it out or should
> I explain?
>
> :-)
>

I actually looked at it a while too...

The
  movq stack_start - __START_KERNEL_map, %rsp

turns into (objdump disassembly)

  mov    0x0,%rsp

with relocation
0000000000000004 R_X86_64_32S      stack_start+0x0000000080000000

Now stack_start is at ffffffff81ef3380, so the relocation gives 1ef3380 which would be correct, so why the
second subq ?

You may explain :)

--Mika

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-02 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-02 11:20 [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Borislav Petkov
2016-03-02 15:55 ` Mika Penttilä
2016-03-02 16:15   ` Borislav Petkov
2016-03-02 16:38     ` Mika Penttilä [this message]
2016-03-02 16:55       ` Borislav Petkov
2016-03-02 17:44         ` Mika Penttilä
2016-03-02 16:22 ` Brian Gerst
2016-03-02 16:25   ` Borislav Petkov
2016-03-02 17:53     ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-03-02 18:15       ` Borislav Petkov
2016-03-02 18:25         ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-03-02 18:39         ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-03-02 19:50           ` Borislav Petkov
2016-03-02 20:46             ` Borislav Petkov
2016-03-02 21:35             ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-03-02 21:46               ` Borislav Petkov
2016-03-02 21:54                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-03-02 22:09                   ` Borislav Petkov
2016-03-02 22:11                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-03-02 22:28                       ` Borislav Petkov
2016-03-02 22:32                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-03-02 22:40                           ` Borislav Petkov
2016-03-03  0:13                           ` Yinghai Lu
2016-03-03  1:00                             ` Yinghai Lu
2016-03-03  2:50                               ` Yinghai Lu
2016-03-03 12:28                           ` Borislav Petkov
2016-03-03 15:26                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-03-03 16:29                               ` Borislav Petkov
2016-03-03 20:22                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-03-03 20:54                                   ` Borislav Petkov
2016-03-03 21:22                                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-03-03 21:38                                       ` Borislav Petkov
2016-03-04  1:18                             ` Yinghai Lu
2016-03-04  2:25                             ` Yinghai Lu

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