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From: Ammar Faizi <[email protected]>
To: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>, Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>,
	Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>,
	Tony Luck <[email protected]>,
	[email protected], [email protected],
	[email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
	Ammar Faizi <[email protected]>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] x86/delay: Fix the wrong asm constraint in `delay_loop()`
Date: Tue,  1 Mar 2022 14:23:52 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

The asm constraint does not reflect that the asm statement can modify
the value of @loops. But the asm statement in delay_loop() does change
the @loops.

If by any chance the compiler inlines this function, it may clobber
random stuff (e.g. local variable, important temporary value in reg,
etc.).

Fortunately, delay_loop() is only called indirectly (so it can't
inline), and then the register it clobbers is %rax (which is by the
nature of the calling convention, it's a caller saved register), so it
didn't yield any bug.

^ That shouldn't be an excuse for using the wrong constraint anyway.

This changes "a" (as an input) to "+a" (as an input and output).

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Fixes: e01b70ef3eb3080fecc35e15f68cd274c0a48163 ("x86: fix bug in arch/i386/lib/delay.c file, delay_loop function")
Signed-off-by: Ammar Faizi <[email protected]>
---
 arch/x86/lib/delay.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/delay.c b/arch/x86/lib/delay.c
index 65d15df6212d..0e65d00e2339 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lib/delay.c
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/delay.c
@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ static void delay_loop(u64 __loops)
 		"	jnz 2b		\n"
 		"3:	dec %0		\n"
 
-		: /* we don't need output */
-		:"a" (loops)
+		: "+a" (loops)
+		:
 	);
 }
 
-- 
2.32.0


  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-01  7:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-01  7:23 [PATCH 0/2] Two x86 fixes Ammar Faizi
2022-03-01  7:23 ` Ammar Faizi [this message]
2022-03-01  7:23 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86/mce/amd: Fix memory leak when `threshold_create_bank()` fails Ammar Faizi
2022-03-01  7:29 ` [PATCH 0/2] Two x86 fixes Ammar Faizi

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