Re: objtool clac/stac handling change..

[Al Viro]

On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 02:55:19PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> And while XSTATE_OP() is still disgusting, it's
> 
>  (a) slightly less disgusting than it used to be
> 
>  (b) now easily fixable if we do the "exceptions clear AC" thing.
> 
> so it's an improvement all around.
> 
> If it works, that is. As mentioned: IT HAS NO TESTING.

What about load_unaligned_zeropad()?  Normally the caller doesn't
want to know about the exception on crossing into an unmapped
page.  Blanket "clear #AC of fixup, don't go through user_access_end()
in case of exception" would complicate the code that calls that sucker.