Re: x86_64: Bug in new out of line put_user()

[Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>]

Alexander Nyberg wrote:
> The new out of line put_user() assembly on x86_64 changes %rcx without
> telling GCC about it causing things like:
>
> http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4515 
>
> See to it that %rcx is not changed (made it consistent with get_user()).
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>
>
> Index: test/arch/x86_64/lib/getuser.S
> ===================================================================
> --- test.orig/arch/x86_64/lib/getuser.S	2005-04-20 23:55:35.000000000 +0200
> +++ test/arch/x86_64/lib/getuser.S	2005-04-21 00:54:16.000000000 +0200
> @@ -78,9 +78,9 @@
>  __get_user_8:
>  	GET_THREAD_INFO(%r8)
>  	addq $7,%rcx
> -	jc bad_get_user
> +	jc 40f
>  	cmpq threadinfo_addr_limit(%r8),%rcx
> -	jae	bad_get_user
> +	jae	40f
>  	subq	$7,%rcx
>  4:	movq (%rcx),%rdx
>  	xorl %eax,%eax
> Index: test/arch/x86_64/lib/putuser.S
> ===================================================================
> --- test.orig/arch/x86_64/lib/putuser.S	2005-04-21 00:50:24.000000000 +0200
> +++ test/arch/x86_64/lib/putuser.S	2005-04-21 01:02:15.000000000 +0200
> @@ -46,36 +46,45 @@
>  __put_user_2:
>  	GET_THREAD_INFO(%r8)
>  	addq $1,%rcx
> -	jc bad_put_user
> +	jc 20f
>  	cmpq threadinfo_addr_limit(%r8),%rcx
> -	jae	 bad_put_user
> -2:	movw %dx,-1(%rcx)
> +	jae 20f
> +2:	decq %rcx
> +	movw %dx,(%rcx)
>  	xorl %eax,%eax
>  	ret
> +20:	decq %rcx
> +	jmp bad_put_user
>  
>  	.p2align 4
>  .globl __put_user_4
>  __put_user_4:
>  	GET_THREAD_INFO(%r8)
>  	addq $3,%rcx
> -	jc bad_put_user
> +	jc 30f
>  	cmpq threadinfo_addr_limit(%r8),%rcx
> -	jae bad_put_user
> -3:	movl %edx,-3(%rcx)
> +	jae 30f
> +3:	subq $3,%rcx
> +	movl %edx,(%rcx)
>  	xorl %eax,%eax
>  	ret
> +30:	subq $3,%rcx
> +	jmp bad_put_user
>  
>  	.p2align 4
>  .globl __put_user_8
>  __put_user_8:
>  	GET_THREAD_INFO(%r8)
>  	addq $7,%rcx
> -	jc bad_put_user
> +	jc 40f
>  	cmpq threadinfo_addr_limit(%r8),%rcx
> -	jae	bad_put_user
> -4:	movq %rdx,-7(%rcx)
> +	jae 40f
> +4:	subq $7,%rcx
> +	movq %rdx,(%rcx)
>  	xorl %eax,%eax
>  	ret
> +40:	subq $7,%rcx
> +	jmp bad_put_user
>  
>  bad_put_user:
>  	movq $(-EFAULT),%rax
>
>
> -

This patch has a serious bug.  The 2, 3 and 4 labels must be on the mov 
instructions in order to catch faults.

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				Brian Gerst
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