Re: [linus:master] BUILD REGRESSION a2e5790d841658485d642196dbb0927303d6c22f

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 08:14:51PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Then someone went and wrecked it.

Yeah, note says UD0 didn't eat a ModRM byte on old CPUs. But then that
changed too. Fun stuff changing insn encoding underway.

So if we opt for adding a ModRM byte, could a 0x90 NOP work so that it
doesn't shit itself on those old CPUs?

/me goes and checks

Well, no:

  b3:   0f ff eb                ud0    %ebx,%ebp

decoded with latest objdump turns into:

  b3:   0f                      .byte 0xf
  b4:   ff                      .byte 0xff
  b5:   90                      nop

because 0x90, when used as a ModRM means, AFAICT, register-indirect
addressing with a 32-bit offset which would need more bytes. :-\

/me adds more bytes...

Yap, yuck, that works:

  b3:   0f ff 90 90 90 90 90    ud0    -0x6f6f6f70(%rax),%edx

I guess we need to experiment a bit to find a suitable byte to add...

Nasty.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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