Re: [RFC PATCH 4/6] uprobes/x86: Emulate rip-relative call's

[Denys Vlasenko]

On 04/10/2014 03:57 PM, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> (2014/04/10 22:41), Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>> On 04/09/2014 05:43 PM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>>> On 04/08, Jim Keniston wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, 2014-04-06 at 22:16 +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>>>>> 0xe8. Anything else?
>>>>
>>>> No, I think e8 is the only call instruction uprobes will see.
>>>
>>> Good.
>>
>> There is this monstrosity, "16-bit override for branches" in 64-mode:
>>
>> 66 e8 nn nn       callw   <offset16>
>>
>> Nobody sane uses it because it truncates instruction pointer.
> 
> No problem, insn.c can handle that too. :)

That's good that we decode it correctly,
but there is more to it.

Call insn pushes return address to stack.

This "mutant 16-bit call", what should it push?
Full RIP?
Truncated 16-bit IP? If yes, by how much does it
advance RSP? +2? +8?
Hmm. Does it affect RSP or only its 16-bit lower part?

It's a can of worms! :)

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