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x86/asm/entry/32: Simplify pushes of zeroed pt_regs->REGs
authorDenys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Sat, 14 Jul 2018 09:30:46 +0000 (02:30 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 25 Jul 2018 08:18:19 +0000 (10:18 +0200)
commit659cc61a987662a6674022d5980a5b5eb0a9b4fe
treecd51a37a3e19e3ee0d5a32993cce10febc0d5456
parent1aae84c2807e6ee1358725aee9eabf1137d055e6
x86/asm/entry/32: Simplify pushes of zeroed pt_regs->REGs

commit 778843f934e362ed4ed734520f60a44a78a074b4 upstream

Use of a temporary R8 register here seems to be unnecessary.

"push %r8" is a two-byte insn (it needs REX prefix to specify R8),
"push $0" is two-byte too. It seems just using the latter would be
no worse.

Thus, code had an unnecessary "xorq %r8,%r8" insn.
It probably costs nothing in execution time here since we are probably
limited by store bandwidth at this point, but still.

Run-tested under QEMU: 32-bit calls still work:

 / # ./test_syscall_vdso32
 [RUN] Executing 6-argument 32-bit syscall via VDSO
 [OK] Arguments are preserved across syscall
 [NOTE] R11 has changed:0000000000200ed7 - assuming clobbered by SYSRET insn
 [OK] R8..R15 did not leak kernel data
 [RUN] Executing 6-argument 32-bit syscall via INT 80
 [OK] Arguments are preserved across syscall
 [OK] R8..R15 did not leak kernel data
 [RUN] Running tests under ptrace
 [RUN] Executing 6-argument 32-bit syscall via VDSO
 [OK] Arguments are preserved across syscall
 [NOTE] R11 has changed:0000000000200ed7 - assuming clobbered by SYSRET insn
 [OK] R8..R15 did not leak kernel data
 [RUN] Executing 6-argument 32-bit syscall via INT 80
 [OK] Arguments are preserved across syscall
 [OK] R8..R15 did not leak kernel data

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462201010-16846-1-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa@csail.mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Matt Helsley (VMware) <matt.helsley@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov@vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: Bo Gan <ganb@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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