Re: [PATCH 3/3] objtool: Support stack layout changes in alternatives

[Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 03:09:52PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 11:18:10PM -0600, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> 
> > For example, this scenario is allowed:
> > 
> >           Alt1                    Alt2                    Alt3
> > 
> >    0x00   CALL *pv_ops.save_fl    CALL xen_save_fl        PUSHF
> >    0x01                                                   POP %RAX
> >    0x02                                                   NOP
> >    ...
> >    0x05                           NOP
> >    ...
> >    0x07   <insn>
> > 
> 
> > This scenario is NOT allowed:
> > 
> >           Alt1                    Alt2
> > 
> >    0x00   CALL *pv_ops.save_fl    PUSHF
> >    0x01                           NOP6
> >    ...
> >    0x07   NOP                     POP %RAX
> > 
> 
> > The problem here is that offset-0x7, which is an instruction boundary in
> > both possible instruction patch streams, has two conflicting stack
> > layouts.
> 
> There's another fun scenario:
> 
>   0x00        CALL *pv_ops.save_fl            PUSHF
>   0x01                                        NOP2
>   ..
>   0x03                                        NOP5
>   ..
>   0x07        NOP2
>   0x08                                        POP %RAX
>   0x09        <insn>
> 
> No conflicting boundary at 0x07, but still buggered.
> 
> Let me go read the actual patch to see if this is handled.

That scenario looks good, see ORC below:

.diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
index cad08703c4ad..4079a430ab3f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
@@ -1483,3 +1483,8 @@ SYM_CODE_START(rewind_stack_do_exit)
        call    do_exit
 SYM_CODE_END(rewind_stack_do_exit)
 .popsection
+
+SYM_FUNC_START(peter)
+       ALTERNATIVE "call *pv_ops+288(%rip); .byte 0x66,0x90", "pushf; .byte 
0x66,0x90; .byte 0x66,0x66,0x66,0x90; popq %rax", X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS
+       ret
+SYM_FUNC_END(peter)


00000000000014e0 <peter>:
    14e0:       ff 15 00 00 00 00       callq  *0x0(%rip)        # 14e6 
<peter+0x6>
                        14e2: R_X86_64_PC32     pv_ops+0x11c
    14e6:       66 90                   xchg   %ax,%ax
    14e8:       c3                      retq

alt replacement:
  cf:   9c                      pushfq
  d0:   66 90                   xchg   %ax,%ax
  d2:   66 66 66 90             data16 data16 xchg %ax,%ax
  d6:   58                      pop    %rax



ORC:

.entry.text+14e0: sp:sp+8 bp:(und) type:call end:0
.entry.text+14e1: sp:sp+16 bp:(und) type:call end:0
.entry.text+14e6: sp:sp+8 bp:(und) type:call end:0
.entry.text+14e7: sp:sp+16 bp:(und) type:call end:0
.entry.text+14e8: sp:sp+8 bp:(und) type:call end:0
.entry.text+14e9: sp:(und) bp:(und) type:call end:0

-- 
Josh