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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 04/21] x86/hweight: Add stack frame dependency for __arch_hweight*()
On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 10:57:14AM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> Currently, when stackvalidate sees an ALTERNATIVE, it assumes that
> either code path is possible, so it follows both paths in parallel.
>
> If I understand right, you're proposing that stackvalidate should only
> follow the POPCNT path and never follow the !POPCNT path?

Actually, you don't even need to follow the POPCNT case either because
it is a single instruction - no stack operations there.

So yeah, either that or special-case the case where the original insn is
CALL and the replacement is a POPCNT and ignore those CALL locations.

The advantage is that the burden is put on the tool and not by adding
markers to kernel code paths.

> In general, I agree, and I like the original patch much better. IMO, it
> achieved the goal of keeping the kernel code clean, while fixing the
> frame pointer bug.

And I think that in that case, adding that rSP dependency is too much
because even though it fixes the "bug", it is very very unlikely any
stack trace will have __sw_hweight* in it for reasons pointed out
earlier and also because those functions can't fail and they get
integral types as args which can't fail when deref-fing either. And even
if they do, they don't call any other functions so rIP pointing to them
is already enough.

So even if we're not 100% correct wrt stack traces in this case, I think
that's ok.

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Boris.

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