Re: locking/atomic: Introduce atomic_try_cmpxchg()

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 01:27:49PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 1:22 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 11:45:46AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> >> After playing with it a bit, I found some of the problem: you're
> >> passing val into EXCEPTION_VALUE, which keeps it live.  If I get rid
> >> of that, the generated code is great.
> >
> > Right, so I needed that because I land on ud2 through 2 different paths:
> >
> >  - newly saturated
> >  - use-after-free
> >
> > And the exception handler can figure out which of the two by looking at
> > the variable, but then of course, it needs to be life.
> >
> > For the full horror of how to do this, look here:
> >
> >   http://paste.debian.net/924190/
> >
> > But I didn't just show you that, so you can't blame me for any damage
> > that might've done you.
> 
> Wow, that's horrible.  Could this not be done by looking at flags
> instead of regs?

Well, the EXCEPTION_HANDLER() thing is something ARM/ARM64 could also
implement.