Re: [PATCH 6/8] i915,uaccess: Fix redundant CLAC

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 01:57:18PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 01:27:45PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > arch/x86/lib/usercopy_64.o: warning: objtool: .altinstr_replacement+0x30: redundant UACCESS disable
> 
> > The usercopy one is difficult, that's copy_user_handle_tail(), it is
> > buggered though, because that lacks notrace and thus has a __fentry__
> > call in.
> > 
> > Also, afaict all exception jumps into copy_user_handle_tail() will have
> > AC=1, but the __{get,put}_user_nocheck() things do STAC/CLAC all over
> > again.
> > 
> > So what do we do? Annotate that we start with AC=1 and then immediately
> > do the clac, and then let __{get,put}_user_nocheck() do their own thing?
> > or make it use the unsafe stuff?
> 
> Or.. we move the thing to assembly. Of course, I suck at (writing) asm,
> so the below is probably broken in various ways.

The advantage is that it now all lives in the same .o file and objtool
can actually follow and find the complete control flow.

I've made it ENDPROC() such that it becomes STT_FUNC and objtool does
all the normal things. I've also moved the ALIGN_DESTINATION macro into
the .S file.

Andy, do we have a sensible self-test for this path?