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Commit 17be0aec authored by Denys Vlasenko's avatar Denys Vlasenko Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86/asm/entry/64: Implement better check for canonical addresses



This change makes the check exact (no more false positives
on "negative" addresses).

Andy explains:

 "Canonical addresses either start with 17 zeros or 17 ones.

  In the old code, we checked that the top (64-47) = 17 bits were all
  zero.  We did this by shifting right by 47 bits and making sure that
  nothing was left.

  In the new code, we're shifting left by (64 - 48) = 16 bits and then
  signed shifting right by the same amount, this propagating the 17th
  highest bit to all positions to its left.  If we get the same value we
  started with, then we're good to go."

While it isn't really important to be fully correct here -
almost all addresses we'll ever see will be userspace ones,
but OTOH it looks to be cheap enough: the new code uses
two more ALU ops but preserves %rcx, allowing to not
reload it from pt_regs->cx again.

On disassembly level, the changes are:

  cmp %rcx,0x80(%rsp) -> mov 0x80(%rsp),%r11; cmp %rcx,%r11
  shr $0x2f,%rcx      -> shl $0x10,%rcx; sar $0x10,%rcx; cmp %rcx,%r11
  mov 0x58(%rsp),%rcx -> (eliminated)

Signed-off-by: default avatarDenys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
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: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1429633649-20169-1-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com


[ Changelog massage. ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 3462bd2a
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