Re: [PATCH v13 13/23] x86/asm/crypto: Create stack frames in aesni-intel_asm.S

[Mathias Krause]

On Do, Okt 01, 2015 at 08:29:50 -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 08:10:26AM +0200, minipli@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 10:47:04AM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> > >  ENTRY(aesni_set_key)
> > > +	FRAME_BEGIN
> > >  #ifndef __x86_64__
> > >  	pushl KEYP
> > >  	movl 8(%esp), KEYP		# ctx
> > 
> > This will break 32 bit builds using the aesni-intel.ko module. You need
> > to adjust the esp-based offsets for the non-x86_64 case, as FRAME_BEGIN
> > may do another push.
> > 
> > How about adding a FRAME_OFFSET() macro to <asm/frame.h> to wrap the
> > offsets?:
> > 
> > #ifdef CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER
> > # define FRAME_OFFSET(x)	((x) + (BITS_PER_LONG / 8))
> > #else
> > # define FRAME_OFFSET(x)	(x)
> > #endif
> > 
> > And using them like this:
> > 
> > 	movl FRAME_OFFSET(8)(%esp), KEYP		# ctx
> 
> Ah, right.  The 32-bit ABI passes arguments on the stack instead of via
> registers.
> 
> For now, I'm inclined to just make FRAME_BEGIN and FRAME_END do nothing
> on 32-bit.  We're only doing stack validation on x86_64 and I don't know
> if anybody cares about frame pointers on 32-bit at this point.

Well, we had issues in the past, especially in that very module, but
only on 32 bit systems. So it would be nice to get frame pointers right
for 32 bit, too.

Regards,
Mathias
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