Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] x86/entry: Clear extra registers beyond syscall arguments for 64bit kernels

[Ingo Molnar]

* Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >      - There's various conditional pieces of entry code that run before any 
> >        RBP-clobbering C function is called. While none of them has an exploitable 
> >        Spectre 'gadget' at the moment, we'd have to consider this for every future
> >        change.
> 
> The Frame Pointer is always set up in assembler too, just in another macro.

As I replied to Andy, that's not universally true: there are code paths where RBP 
is not set before calling C code or going into the more complex parts of the 
kernel entry code.

This RBP value leak in fact demonstrates the validity of my robustness argument:

> >   I.e. we cannot universally rely on RBP being sanitized. In _practice_ it 
> >   will be sanitized, but we don't know for sure without expending quite some 
> >   effort to think through all the cases.

Thanks,

	Ingo