linux/arch/x86/lib/putuser.S
Ingo Molnar 131484c8da x86/debug: Remove perpetually broken, unmaintainable dwarf annotations
So the dwarf2 annotations in low level assembly code have
become an increasing hindrance: unreadable, messy macros
mixed into some of the most security sensitive code paths
of the Linux kernel.

These debug info annotations don't even buy the upstream
kernel anything: dwarf driven stack unwinding has caused
problems in the past so it's out of tree, and the upstream
kernel only uses the much more robust framepointers based
stack unwinding method.

In addition to that there's a steady, slow bitrot going
on with these annotations, requiring frequent fixups.
There's no tooling and no functionality upstream that
keeps it correct.

So burn down the sick forest, allowing new, healthier growth:

   27 files changed, 350 insertions(+), 1101 deletions(-)

Someone who has the willingness and time to do this
properly can attempt to reintroduce dwarf debuginfo in x86
assembly code plus dwarf unwinding from first principles,
with the following conditions:

 - it should be maximally readable, and maximally low-key to
   'ordinary' code reading and maintenance.

 - find a build time method to insert dwarf annotations
   automatically in the most common cases, for pop/push
   instructions that manipulate the stack pointer. This could
   be done for example via a preprocessing step that just
   looks for common patterns - plus special annotations for
   the few cases where we want to depart from the default.
   We have hundreds of CFI annotations, so automating most of
   that makes sense.

 - it should come with build tooling checks that ensure that
   CFI annotations are sensible. We've seen such efforts from
   the framepointer side, and there's no reason it couldn't be
   done on the dwarf side.

Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-06-02 07:57:48 +02:00

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/*
* __put_user functions.
*
* (C) Copyright 2005 Linus Torvalds
* (C) Copyright 2005 Andi Kleen
* (C) Copyright 2008 Glauber Costa
*
* These functions have a non-standard call interface
* to make them more efficient, especially as they
* return an error value in addition to the "real"
* return value.
*/
#include <linux/linkage.h>
#include <asm/thread_info.h>
#include <asm/errno.h>
#include <asm/asm.h>
#include <asm/smap.h>
/*
* __put_user_X
*
* Inputs: %eax[:%edx] contains the data
* %ecx contains the address
*
* Outputs: %eax is error code (0 or -EFAULT)
*
* These functions should not modify any other registers,
* as they get called from within inline assembly.
*/
#define ENTER GET_THREAD_INFO(%_ASM_BX)
#define EXIT ASM_CLAC ; \
ret
.text
ENTRY(__put_user_1)
ENTER
cmp TI_addr_limit(%_ASM_BX),%_ASM_CX
jae bad_put_user
ASM_STAC
1: movb %al,(%_ASM_CX)
xor %eax,%eax
EXIT
ENDPROC(__put_user_1)
ENTRY(__put_user_2)
ENTER
mov TI_addr_limit(%_ASM_BX),%_ASM_BX
sub $1,%_ASM_BX
cmp %_ASM_BX,%_ASM_CX
jae bad_put_user
ASM_STAC
2: movw %ax,(%_ASM_CX)
xor %eax,%eax
EXIT
ENDPROC(__put_user_2)
ENTRY(__put_user_4)
ENTER
mov TI_addr_limit(%_ASM_BX),%_ASM_BX
sub $3,%_ASM_BX
cmp %_ASM_BX,%_ASM_CX
jae bad_put_user
ASM_STAC
3: movl %eax,(%_ASM_CX)
xor %eax,%eax
EXIT
ENDPROC(__put_user_4)
ENTRY(__put_user_8)
ENTER
mov TI_addr_limit(%_ASM_BX),%_ASM_BX
sub $7,%_ASM_BX
cmp %_ASM_BX,%_ASM_CX
jae bad_put_user
ASM_STAC
4: mov %_ASM_AX,(%_ASM_CX)
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
5: movl %edx,4(%_ASM_CX)
#endif
xor %eax,%eax
EXIT
ENDPROC(__put_user_8)
bad_put_user:
movl $-EFAULT,%eax
EXIT
END(bad_put_user)
_ASM_EXTABLE(1b,bad_put_user)
_ASM_EXTABLE(2b,bad_put_user)
_ASM_EXTABLE(3b,bad_put_user)
_ASM_EXTABLE(4b,bad_put_user)
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
_ASM_EXTABLE(5b,bad_put_user)
#endif