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From: Bastian Blank <bastian@waldi.eu.org>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
	Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen: Disable stack protector for irq helper
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 03:35:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091005013517.GA6081@wavehammer.waldi.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AC92A65.40806@goop.org>

On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 04:06:13PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On 10/04/09 11:30, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > The stack protector needs additional registers on x86_32, which are not
> > saved in calls to the small paravirt interrupt handlers. This leads to
> > early crashes as registers are overwritten and not saved by the caller
> > as instructed.
> Thanks for the patch, but I don't think its quite right.  
> PV_CALLEE_SAVE_REGS_THUNK() is responsible for generating a wrapper for
> the functions to save/restore all the appropriate registers.  If it is
> failing to do so, then the correct fix is to update
> PV_SAVE/RESTORE_ALL_CALLER_REGS.

Well, I did not understand this part of the code, but you seem right. So
lets try the following. I have not yet run tested it.

Save all caller-saved registers on x86_32 for the paravirt callee saved
registers.

Signed-off-by: Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h
index e19ffe3..e4272f3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h
@@ -793,8 +793,8 @@ static __always_inline void __raw_spin_unlock(struct raw_spinlock *lock)
 #define PV_RESTORE_REGS "popl %edx; popl %ecx;"
 
 /* save and restore all caller-save registers, except return value */
-#define PV_SAVE_ALL_CALLER_REGS		"pushl %ecx;"
-#define PV_RESTORE_ALL_CALLER_REGS	"popl  %ecx;"
+#define PV_SAVE_ALL_CALLER_REGS PV_SAVE_REGS
+#define PV_RESTORE_ALL_CALLER_REGS PV_RESTORE_REGS
 
 #define PV_FLAGS_ARG "0"
 #define PV_EXTRA_CLOBBERS
-- 
In the strict scientific sense we all feed on death -- even vegetarians.
		-- Spock, "Wolf in the Fold", stardate 3615.4

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-05  1:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-04 18:30 [PATCH] xen: Disable stack protector for irq helper Bastian Blank
2009-10-04 23:06 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-05  1:35   ` Bastian Blank [this message]
2009-10-05 17:21     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-05 22:43       ` Bastian Blank
2009-10-06  0:36         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-06  3:30           ` Bastian Blank
2009-10-06 19:01             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-07 16:35               ` Bastian Blank
2009-10-08  0:33                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-12 20:52                   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12 21:12                     ` Bastian Blank
2009-10-12 22:20                       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-12 23:32                     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-13  7:25                       ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86/paravirt: Use normal calling sequences for irq enable/disable tip-bot for Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-05  1:52   ` [PATCH] xen: fbdev frontend needs xenbus frontend Bastian Blank

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