Re: [PATCHv3] x86/selftests: add clobbers for int80 on x86_64

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 2:13 AM, Dmitry Safonov <dsafonov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Kernel erases R8..R11 registers prior returning to userspace
> from int80: https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/1/164
>
> GCC can reuse this registers and doesn't expect them to change
> during syscall invocation. I met this kind of bug in CRIU once
> gcc 6.1 and clang stored local variables in those registers
> and the kernel zerofied them during syscall:
> https://github.com/xemul/criu/commit/990d33f1a1cdd17bca6c2eb059ab3be2564f7fa2
>
> By that reason I suggest to add those registers to clobbers
> in selftests.  Also, as notted by Andy - removed unneeded clobber
> for flags in int 0x80 inline asm.

Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>

Although these days we could preserve these regs in the kernel at the
cost of (I think) 4 bytes of text and zero runtime overhead.

--Andy