Re: [PATCH] mips: vdso: conditionalize 32-bit time functions on COMPAT_32BIT_TIME

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 4:58 PM Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Makes sense w.r.t. time32 situation.
>
> I still think that in spite of that there's still something weird
> happening with the mips VDSO.

Agreed.

> Here's a register dump before the call:
>
>  $ 0   : 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 0000000010000000 fffffffffffffffc
>  $ 4   : 0000000000000002 000000007fff2e40 0000000000000000 0000000000000001
>  $ 8   : 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>  $12   : 0000000000000000 000000000000000a ffffffff80000000 000000007fffffda
>  $16   : 0000000010001ba8 0000005800000015 0000000010000000 0000000010000000
>  $20   : 0000000010000000 0000000010000000 0000000000000000 0000000077ff2ae8
>  $24   : 0000000000000005 0000000077fa1d18
>  $28   : 0000000010019cf0 000000007fff2e40 0000000000000000 0000000010000c30
>  Hi    : 0000000000000000
>  Lo    : 0000000000000000
>  epc   : 0000000077fa1d18 0x77fa1d18
>  ra    : 0000000010000c30 0x10000c30
>
> And here it is immediately after:
>
>  $ 0   : 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 ffffffffffffffa7 000000007fff5000
>  $ 4   : 0000000000000002 000000007fff2e40 0000000077ff2000 0000000000000001
>  $ 8   : 0000000000000006 0000000000000020 0000000000000002 0000000000000000
>  $12   : 0000000000000000 0000000000001852 ffffffff80156160 000000007fffffda
>  $16   : 0000000010001ba8 0000005800000015 0000000010000000 0000000010000000
>  $20   : 0000000010000000 0000000010000000 0000000000000000 0000000077ff2b00
>  $24   : 0000000000000005 0000000000000000
>  $28   : 000000007fff5000 000000007fff2e30 0000000000000000 0000000077fa1e00
>  Hi    : 0000000000000000
>  Lo    : 0000000000000000
>  epc   : 0000000077fa1e00 0x77fa1e00
>  ra    : 0000000077fa1e00 0x77fa1e00

Is this immediately before/after the syscall instruction or the
indirect function call?

> I wonder if a toolchain option or compiler bug or something is causing
> the vdso to not restore certain registers (gp? ra?).

Here is the assembler output I see for the o32 vdso, hopefully I got all
the relevant bits:

 # /git/arm-soc/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c:130:    if (unlikely(ret))
        .set    noreorder
        .set    nomacro
        beqz    $2,$L86  #,,
        lw      $28,16($sp)      #,
        .set    macro
        .set    reorder

$L46:
 # /git/arm-soc/arch/mips/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h:118:
register struct old_timespec32 *ts asm("a1") = _ts;
        move    $5,$16   # ts, ts
 # /git/arm-soc/arch/mips/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h:119:
register clockid_t clkid asm("a0") = _clkid;
        move    $4,$17   # clkid, clock
 # /git/arm-soc/arch/mips/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h:121:
register long nr asm("v0") = __NR_clock_gettime;
        li      $2,4263                 # 0x10a7         # nr,
 # /git/arm-soc/arch/mips/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h:124:  asm volatile(
#APP
 # 124 "/git/arm-soc/arch/mips/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h" 1
               syscall

 # 0 "" 2
 # /git/arm-soc/arch/mips/vdso/vgettimeofday.c:18: }
#NO_APP
        lw      $31,60($sp)      #,
        lw      $19,56($sp)      #,
 # /git/arm-soc/arch/mips/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h:131:  return
error ? -ret : ret;
        subu    $3,$0,$2         # <retval>, ret
        selnez  $3,$3,$7         # tmp406, <retval>, error
        seleqz  $2,$2,$7         # tmp407, ret, error
        or      $3,$3,$2         # <retval>, tmp406, tmp407
 # /git/arm-soc/arch/mips/vdso/vgettimeofday.c:18: }
        lw      $18,52($sp)      #,
        lw      $17,48($sp)      #,
        lw      $16,44($sp)      #,
        move    $2,$3    #, <retval>
        .set    noreorder
        .set    nomacro
        jr      $31      #
        addiu   $sp,$sp,64       #,,
        .set    macro
        .set    reorder

gp ($28) and ra ($31) sound like good guesses to me,

SP ($r29) changed from 000000007fff2e40
to 000000007fff2e30, if that is not the intention, it would clearly explain why
anything afterwards crashes, but that seems unlikely.

r3 contains the error code -ENOSYS on mips, so that's good.

$23 is supposed to be preserved across function calls and is
consequently not part of the clobber list but is modified.

$25 is part of the clobber list and is also modified, but there
is no code to save/restore it in the assembler output.

      Arnd