[RFC PATCH 1/1] Revert "rseq/selftests: arm: use udf instruction for RSEQ_SIG"

From: Mathieu Desnoyers
Date: Mon Jun 17 2019 - 11:28:17 EST


This reverts commit 2b845d4b4acd9422bbb668989db8dc36dfc8f438.

That commit introduces build issues for programs compiled in Thumb mode.
Rather than try to be clever and emit a valid trap instruction on arm32,
which requires special care about big/little endian handling on that
architecture, just emit plain data. Data in the instruction stream is
technically expected on arm32: this is how literal pools are
implemented. Reverting to the prior behavior does exactly that.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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---
tools/testing/selftests/rseq/rseq-arm.h | 52 ++-------------------------------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/rseq/rseq-arm.h b/tools/testing/selftests/rseq/rseq-arm.h
index 84f28f147fb6..5f262c54364f 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/rseq/rseq-arm.h
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/rseq/rseq-arm.h
@@ -5,54 +5,7 @@
* (C) Copyright 2016-2018 - Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
*/

-/*
- * RSEQ_SIG uses the udf A32 instruction with an uncommon immediate operand
- * value 0x5de3. This traps if user-space reaches this instruction by mistake,
- * and the uncommon operand ensures the kernel does not move the instruction
- * pointer to attacker-controlled code on rseq abort.
- *
- * The instruction pattern in the A32 instruction set is:
- *
- * e7f5def3 udf #24035 ; 0x5de3
- *
- * This translates to the following instruction pattern in the T16 instruction
- * set:
- *
- * little endian:
- * def3 udf #243 ; 0xf3
- * e7f5 b.n <7f5>
- *
- * pre-ARMv6 big endian code:
- * e7f5 b.n <7f5>
- * def3 udf #243 ; 0xf3
- *
- * ARMv6+ -mbig-endian generates mixed endianness code vs data: little-endian
- * code and big-endian data. Ensure the RSEQ_SIG data signature matches code
- * endianness. Prior to ARMv6, -mbig-endian generates big-endian code and data
- * (which match), so there is no need to reverse the endianness of the data
- * representation of the signature. However, the choice between BE32 and BE8
- * is done by the linker, so we cannot know whether code and data endianness
- * will be mixed before the linker is invoked.
- */
-
-#define RSEQ_SIG_CODE 0xe7f5def3
-
-#ifndef __ASSEMBLER__
-
-#define RSEQ_SIG_DATA \
- ({ \
- int sig; \
- asm volatile ("b 2f\n\t" \
- "1: .inst " __rseq_str(RSEQ_SIG_CODE) "\n\t" \
- "2:\n\t" \
- "ldr %[sig], 1b\n\t" \
- : [sig] "=r" (sig)); \
- sig; \
- })
-
-#define RSEQ_SIG RSEQ_SIG_DATA
-
-#endif
+#define RSEQ_SIG 0x53053053

#define rseq_smp_mb() __asm__ __volatile__ ("dmb" ::: "memory", "cc")
#define rseq_smp_rmb() __asm__ __volatile__ ("dmb" ::: "memory", "cc")
@@ -125,8 +78,7 @@ do { \
__rseq_str(table_label) ":\n\t" \
".word " __rseq_str(version) ", " __rseq_str(flags) "\n\t" \
".word " __rseq_str(start_ip) ", 0x0, " __rseq_str(post_commit_offset) ", 0x0, " __rseq_str(abort_ip) ", 0x0\n\t" \
- ".arm\n\t" \
- ".inst " __rseq_str(RSEQ_SIG_CODE) "\n\t" \
+ ".word " __rseq_str(RSEQ_SIG) "\n\t" \
__rseq_str(label) ":\n\t" \
teardown \
"b %l[" __rseq_str(abort_label) "]\n\t"
--
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