On Mon, 2020-03-09 at 15:19 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-03-09 at 11:56 -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 11:19 AM Simo Sorce <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2020-03-09 at 19:03 +0100, Niels Möller wrote:
> > > > Simo Sorce <[email protected]> writes:
> > > > 
> > > > > The patchset i solder than I did remember, April 2019
> > > > > But I recall running at least one version of it on our CET emulator @
> > > > > Red Hat.
> > > > 
> > > > Sorry I forgot to followup on that. It seems only the first easy cleanup
> > > > patch, "Add missing EPILOGUEs in assembly files", was applied back then.
> > > > 
> > > > Do you remember why you used GNU_CET_SECTION() explicitly in .asm files,
> > > > rather than using an m4 divert?
> > > 
> > > Not really I do not recall anymore, but I think there was a reason, as
> > > I recall you made that comment back then and it "didn't work out" when
> > > I tried is the memory I have of it.
> > > Might have to do with differences in how it lays out the code when done
> > > via m4 divert, but not 100% sure.
> > > 
> > 
> > m4 divert  requires much less changes.   Here is the updated patch with
> > ASM_X86_ENDBR, ASM_X86_MARK_CET_ALIGN and ASM_X86_MARK_CET.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Two comments on your patch.
> 
> 1. It is an error to align based on architecture. All GNU Notes MUST be
> aligned 8 bytes. Since 2018 GNU Libc ignores misaligned notes.

Ah nevermind this point, misunderstanding with my libc expert, the 4
bytes alignment is ok on 32 bit code.

> 2. It is better to use .pushsection .popsection pairs around the note
> instead of .section because of the side effects of using .section

> The m4 divert looks smaller impact, feel free to lift the Gnu Note
> section in my patch #3 and place it into your patch if you want. My
> code also made it more explicit what all the sections values actually
> mean which will help in long term maintenance if someone else need to
> change anything (like for example changing to enable only ShadowStack
> vs IBT).
> 
> Simo.
> 

-- 
Simo Sorce
RHEL Crypto Team
Red Hat, Inc




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