On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 04:40:26PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote: > From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Using %rbp as a temporary register breaks frame pointer convention and > breaks stack traces when unwinding from an interrupt in the crypto code. > > In twofish-3way, we can't simply replace %rbp with another register > because there are none available. Instead, we use the stack to hold the > values that %rbp, %r11, and %r12 were holding previously. Each of these > values represents the half of the output from the previous Feistel round > that is being passed on unchanged to the following round. They are only > used once per round, when they are exchanged with %rax, %rbx, and %rcx. > > As a result, we free up 3 registers (one per block) and can reassign > them so that %rbp is not used, and additionally %r14 and %r15 are not > used so they do not need to be saved/restored. > > There may be a small overhead caused by replacing 'xchg REG, REG' with > the needed sequence 'mov MEM, REG; mov REG, MEM; mov REG, REG' once per > round. But, counterintuitively, when I tested "ctr-twofish-3way" on a > Haswell processor, the new version was actually about 2% faster. > (Perhaps 'xchg' is not as well optimized as plain moves.) > > Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> Patch applied. Thanks. -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
