This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
Wrong asm register contraints in the kvm implementation
to the 3.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
wrong-asm-register-contraints-in-the-kvm-implementation.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From de53e9caa4c6149ef4a78c2f83d7f5b655848767 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephan Schreiber <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:27:12 -0700
Subject: Wrong asm register contraints in the kvm implementation
From: Stephan Schreiber <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit de53e9caa4c6149ef4a78c2f83d7f5b655848767 upstream.
The Linux Kernel contains some inline assembly source code which has
wrong asm register constraints in arch/ia64/kvm/vtlb.c.
I observed this on Kernel 3.2.35 but it is also true on the most
recent Kernel 3.9-rc1.
File arch/ia64/kvm/vtlb.c:
u64 guest_vhpt_lookup(u64 iha, u64 *pte)
{
u64 ret;
struct thash_data *data;
data = __vtr_lookup(current_vcpu, iha, D_TLB);
if (data != NULL)
thash_vhpt_insert(current_vcpu, data->page_flags,
data->itir, iha, D_TLB);
asm volatile (
"rsm psr.ic|psr.i;;"
"srlz.d;;"
"ld8.s r9=[%1];;"
"tnat.nz p6,p7=r9;;"
"(p6) mov %0=1;"
"(p6) mov r9=r0;"
"(p7) extr.u r9=r9,0,53;;"
"(p7) mov %0=r0;"
"(p7) st8 [%2]=r9;;"
"ssm psr.ic;;"
"srlz.d;;"
"ssm psr.i;;"
"srlz.d;;"
: "=r"(ret) : "r"(iha), "r"(pte):"memory");
return ret;
}
The list of output registers is
: "=r"(ret) : "r"(iha), "r"(pte):"memory");
The constraint "=r" means that the GCC has to maintain that these vars
are in registers and contain valid info when the program flow leaves
the assembly block (output registers).
But "=r" also means that GCC can put them in registers that are used
as input registers. Input registers are iha, pte on the example.
If the predicate p7 is true, the 8th assembly instruction
"(p7) mov %0=r0;"
is the first one which writes to a register which is maintained by the
register constraints; it sets %0. %0 means the first register operand;
it is ret here.
This instruction might overwrite the %2 register (pte) which is needed
by the next instruction:
"(p7) st8 [%2]=r9;;"
Whether it really happens depends on how GCC decides what registers it
uses and how it optimizes the code.
The attached patch fixes the register operand constraints in
arch/ia64/kvm/vtlb.c.
The register constraints should be
: "=&r"(ret) : "r"(iha), "r"(pte):"memory");
The & means that GCC must not use any of the input registers to place
this output register in.
This is Debian bug#702639
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=702639).
The patch is applicable on Kernel 3.9-rc1, 3.2.35 and many other versions.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Schreiber <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/ia64/kvm/vtlb.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/ia64/kvm/vtlb.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kvm/vtlb.c
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ u64 guest_vhpt_lookup(u64 iha, u64 *pte)
"srlz.d;;"
"ssm psr.i;;"
"srlz.d;;"
- : "=r"(ret) : "r"(iha), "r"(pte):"memory");
+ : "=&r"(ret) : "r"(iha), "r"(pte) : "memory");
return ret;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from info@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.8/wrong-asm-register-contraints-in-the-futex-implementation.patch
queue-3.8/wrong-asm-register-contraints-in-the-kvm-implementation.patch
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