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[v9,11/11] x86/alternatives: Adapt assembly for PIE support

Message ID 20190730191303.206365-12-thgarnie@chromium.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series x86: PIE support to extend KASLR randomization | expand

Commit Message

Thomas Garnier July 30, 2019, 7:12 p.m. UTC
Change the assembly options to work with pointers instead of integers.

Position Independent Executable (PIE) support will allow to extend the
KASLR randomization range below 0xffffffff80000000.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@chromium.org>
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 arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Comments

Borislav Petkov Aug. 12, 2019, 1:57 p.m. UTC | #1
On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 12:12:55PM -0700, Thomas Garnier wrote:
> Change the assembly options to work with pointers instead of integers.

This commit message is too vague. A before/after example would make it a
lot more clear why the change is needed.

Thx.
Thomas Garnier Oct. 29, 2019, 9:31 p.m. UTC | #2
On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 6:56 AM Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 12:12:55PM -0700, Thomas Garnier wrote:
> > Change the assembly options to work with pointers instead of integers.
>
> This commit message is too vague. A before/after example would make it a
> lot more clear why the change is needed.

Sorry for the late reply, busy couple months.

I will try to do my best to explain it better in next iteration.

>
> Thx.
>
> --
> Regards/Gruss,
>     Boris.
>
> Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.
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diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
index 094fbc9c0b1c..28a838106e5f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@  static inline int alternatives_text_reserved(void *start, void *end)
 /* Like alternative_io, but for replacing a direct call with another one. */
 #define alternative_call(oldfunc, newfunc, feature, output, input...)	\
 	asm volatile (ALTERNATIVE("call %P[old]", "call %P[new]", feature) \
-		: output : [old] "i" (oldfunc), [new] "i" (newfunc), ## input)
+		: output : [old] "X" (oldfunc), [new] "X" (newfunc), ## input)
 
 /*
  * Like alternative_call, but there are two features and respective functions.
@@ -256,8 +256,8 @@  static inline int alternatives_text_reserved(void *start, void *end)
 	asm volatile (ALTERNATIVE_2("call %P[old]", "call %P[new1]", feature1,\
 		"call %P[new2]", feature2)				      \
 		: output, ASM_CALL_CONSTRAINT				      \
-		: [old] "i" (oldfunc), [new1] "i" (newfunc1),		      \
-		  [new2] "i" (newfunc2), ## input)
+		: [old] "X" (oldfunc), [new1] "X" (newfunc1),		      \
+		  [new2] "X" (newfunc2), ## input)
 
 /*
  * use this macro(s) if you need more than one output parameter