[PATCH for 5.2 06/12] rseq/selftests: x86: use ud1 instruction as RSEQ_SIG opcode

Mathieu Desnoyers
2019-04-29T15:30:16Z

Use ud1 as the guard instruction for the restartable sequence abort
handler. Its benefit compared to nopl is to trap execution if the
program ends up trying to execute it by mistake, which makes debugging
easier.

The 4-byte signature per se is unchanged (it is the instruction
operand). Only the opcode is changed from nopl to ud1.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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---
tools/testing/selftests/rseq/rseq-x86.h | 15 +++++++++++----
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/rseq/rseq-x86.h b/tools/testing/selftests/rseq/rseq-x86.h
index 03095236f6fa..b2da6004fe30 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/rseq/rseq-x86.h
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/rseq/rseq-x86.h
@@ -7,6 +7,13 @@

#include <stdint.h>

+/*
+ * RSEQ_SIG is used with the following reserved undefined instructions, which
+ * trap in user-space:
+ *
+ * x86-32: 0f b9 3d 53 30 05 53 ud1 0x53053053,%edi
+ * x86-64: 0f b9 3d 53 30 05 53 ud1 0x53053053(%rip),%edi
+ */
#define RSEQ_SIG 0x53053053

/*
@@ -88,8 +95,8 @@ do { \

#define RSEQ_ASM_DEFINE_ABORT(label, teardown, abort_label) \
".pushsection __rseq_failure, \"ax\"\n\t" \
- /* Disassembler-friendly signature: nopl <sig>(%rip). */\
- ".byte 0x0f, 0x1f, 0x05\n\t" \
+ /* Disassembler-friendly signature: ud1 <sig>(%rip),%edi. */ \
+ ".byte 0x0f, 0xb9, 0x3d\n\t" \
".long " __rseq_str(RSEQ_SIG) "\n\t" \
__rseq_str(label) ":\n\t" \
teardown \
@@ -609,8 +616,8 @@ do { \

#define RSEQ_ASM_DEFINE_ABORT(label, teardown, abort_label) \
".pushsection __rseq_failure, \"ax\"\n\t" \
- /* Disassembler-friendly signature: nopl <sig>. */ \
- ".byte 0x0f, 0x1f, 0x05\n\t" \
+ /* Disassembler-friendly signature: ud1 <sig>,%edi. */ \
+ ".byte 0x0f, 0xb9, 0x3d\n\t" \
".long " __rseq_str(RSEQ_SIG) "\n\t" \
__rseq_str(label) ":\n\t" \
teardown \
--
2.11.0