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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 1/6] x86/bugs: Add asm helpers for executing VERW
On 25/10/2023 10:28 pm, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 10:10:41PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>> On 25/10/2023 9:52 pm, Pawan Gupta wrote:
>>> diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry.S
>>> index bfb7bcb362bc..f8ba0c0b6e60 100644
>>> --- a/arch/x86/entry/entry.S
>>> +++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry.S
>>> @@ -20,3 +23,16 @@ SYM_FUNC_END(entry_ibpb)
>>> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(entry_ibpb);
>>>
>>> .popsection
>>> +
>>> +.pushsection .entry.text, "ax"
>>> +
>>> +.align L1_CACHE_BYTES, 0xcc
>>> +SYM_CODE_START_NOALIGN(mds_verw_sel)
>>> + UNWIND_HINT_UNDEFINED
>>> + ANNOTATE_NOENDBR
>>> + .word __KERNEL_DS
>> You need another .align here.  Otherwise subsequent code will still
>> start in this cacheline and defeat the purpose of trying to keep it
>> separate.
>>
>>> +SYM_CODE_END(mds_verw_sel);
>> Thinking about it, should this really be CODE and not a data entry?
>>
>> It lives in .entry.text but it really is data and objtool shouldn't be
>> writing ORC data for it at all.
>>
>> (Not to mention that if it's marked as STT_OBJECT, objdump -d will do
>> the sensible thing and not even try to disassemble it).
>>
>> ~Andrew
>>
>> P.S. Please CC on the full series.  Far less effort than fishing the
>> rest off lore.
> +1 to putting it in .rodata or so.

It's necessarily in .entry.text so it doesn't explode with KPTI active.

~Andrew

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