Re: [PATCH 11/16] x86/asm/64: Use a percpu trampoline stack for IDT entries

[Ingo Molnar]

* Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
> index 1ea03027a4a9..e4a941be96cf 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c

> -asmlinkage __visible notrace
> +asmlinkage __visible notrace __no_sanitize_address
>  struct bad_iret_stack *fixup_bad_iret(struct bad_iret_stack *s)
>  {
>  	/*
>  	 * This is called from entry_64.S early in handling a fault
>  	 * caused by a bad iret to user mode.  To handle the fault
> -	 * correctly, we want move our stack frame to task_pt_regs
> -	 * and we want to pretend that the exception came from the
> -	 * iret target.
> +	 * correctly, we want move our stack frame to where it would
> +	 * be had we entered directly on the entry stack (rather than
> +	 * just below the IRET frame) and we want to pretend that the
> +	 * exception came from the iret target.
>  	 */
>  	struct bad_iret_stack *new_stack =
> -		container_of(task_pt_regs(current),
> -			     struct bad_iret_stack, regs);
> +		(struct bad_iret_stack *)this_cpu_read(cpu_tss.x86_tss.sp0) - 1;
>  
>  	/* Copy the IRET target to the new stack. */
>  	memmove(&new_stack->regs.ip, (void *)s->regs.sp, 5*8);

So the addition of the __no_sanitize_address attribute to fixup_bad_iret() made 
the 64-bit allyesconfig/allmodconfig kernels fail the build:

 In file included from ./include/linux/bitmap.h:9:0,
 arch/x86/kernel/traps.c: In function âfixup_bad_iretâ:
 ./include/linux/string.h:344:24: error: inlining failed in call to always_inline 
 âmemmoveâ: function attribute mismatch
  __FORTIFY_INLINE void *memmove(void *p, const void *q, __kernel_size_t size)
 arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:645:2: error: called from here
 In file included from ./include/linux/bitmap.h:9:0,
 ./include/linux/string.h:344:24: error: inlining failed in call to always_inline 
 âmemmoveâ: function attribute mismatch
  __FORTIFY_INLINE void *memmove(void *p, const void *q, __kernel_size_t size)
 arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:642:2: error: called from here
 scripts/Makefile.build:314: recipe for target 'arch/x86/kernel/traps.o' failed

Thanks,

	Ingo