On 02/10/2017 02:52 PM, Dmitry Safonov wrote:
Kernel erases R8..R11 registers prior returning to userspace
from int80: https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/1/164

GCC can reuse this registers and doesn't expect them to change
during syscall invocation. I met this kind of bug in CRIU once
gcc 6.1 and clang stored local variables in those registers
and the kernel zerofied them during syscall:
https://github.com/xemul/criu/commit/990d33f1a1cdd17bca6c2eb059ab3be2564f7fa2

By that reason I suggest to add those registers to clobbers
in selftests.

Cc: Shuah Khan <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <[email protected]>
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 tools/testing/selftests/x86/fsgsbase.c            |  2 +-
 tools/testing/selftests/x86/iopl.c                | 10 ++++++++--

Drop this one: iopl doesn't do int80 - it's my failure in grepping.
Will resend.

 tools/testing/selftests/x86/ldt_gdt.c             | 16 +++++++++++-----
 tools/testing/selftests/x86/ptrace_syscall.c      |  3 ++-
 tools/testing/selftests/x86/single_step_syscall.c |  5 ++++-
 5 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)


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             Dmitry

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