On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 04:48:17PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> 64-bit code was using six stack slots fewer by not saving/restoring
> registers which a callee-preserved according to C ABI,
> and not allocating space for them.
> 
> Only when syscall needed a complete "struct pt_regs",
> the complete area was allocated and filled in.
> 
> This proved to be a source of significant obfuscation and subtle bugs.
> For example, stub_fork had to pop the return address,
> extend the struct, save registers, and push return address back. Ugly.
> ia32_ptregs_common pops return address and "returns" via jmp insn,
> throwing a wrench into CPU return stack cache.
> 
> This patch changes code to always allocate a complete "struct pt_regs".
> The saving of registers is still done lazily.
> 
> Macros which manipulate "struct pt_regs" on stack are reworked:
> ALLOC_PTREGS_ON_STACK allocates the structure.
> SAVE_C_REGS saves to it those registers which are clobbered by C code.
> SAVE_EXTRA_REGS saves to it all other registers.
> Corresponding RESTORE_* and REMOVE_PTREGS_FROM_STACK macros reverse it.
> 
> ia32_ptregs_common, stub_fork and friends lost their ugly dance with
> return pointer.
> 
> LOAD_ARGS32 in ia32entry.S now uses a symbolic stack offsets
> instead of magic numbers.
> 
> Misleading and slightly wrong comments in "struct pt_regs" are fixed
> (four instances).
> 
> Patch was run-tested: 64-bit executables, 32-bit executables,
> strace works.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlas...@redhat.com>
> CC: Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com>
> CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <h...@zytor.com>
> CC: Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net>
> CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com>
> CC: X86 ML <x...@kernel.org>
> CC: Alexei Starovoitov <a...@plumgrid.com>
> CC: Will Drewry <w...@chromium.org>
> CC: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org>
> CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> ---
>  arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S              |  47 +++----
>  arch/x86/include/asm/calling.h         | 224 
> ++++++++++++++++-----------------
>  arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h        |   4 +-
>  arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace.h          |  13 +-
>  arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/ptrace-abi.h |  16 ++-
>  arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h     |  13 +-
>  arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S             | 132 ++++++++-----------
>  arch/x86/kernel/preempt.S              |  16 ++-
>  8 files changed, 232 insertions(+), 233 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S b/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S
> index 4299eb0..ef9ee16 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S
> @@ -62,12 +62,12 @@
>        */
>       .macro LOAD_ARGS32 offset, _r9=0
>       .if \_r9
> -     movl \offset+16(%rsp),%r9d
> +     movl \offset+R9(%rsp),%r9d
>       .endif
> -     movl \offset+40(%rsp),%ecx
> -     movl \offset+48(%rsp),%edx
> -     movl \offset+56(%rsp),%esi
> -     movl \offset+64(%rsp),%edi
> +     movl \offset+RCX(%rsp),%ecx
> +     movl \offset+RDX(%rsp),%edx
> +     movl \offset+RSI(%rsp),%esi
> +     movl \offset+RDI(%rsp),%edi
>       movl %eax,%eax                  /* zero extension */
>       .endm
>       
> @@ -144,7 +144,8 @@ ENTRY(ia32_sysenter_target)
>       CFI_REL_OFFSET rip,0
>       pushq_cfi %rax
>       cld
> -     SAVE_ARGS 0,1,0
> +     ALLOC_PTREGS_ON_STACK
> +     SAVE_C_REGS_EXCEPT_R891011
>       /* no need to do an access_ok check here because rbp has been
>          32bit zero extended */ 
>       ASM_STAC
> @@ -172,7 +173,8 @@ sysexit_from_sys_call:
>       andl  $~0x200,EFLAGS-R11(%rsp) 
>       movl    RIP-R11(%rsp),%edx              /* User %eip */
>       CFI_REGISTER rip,rdx
> -     RESTORE_ARGS 0,24,0,0,0,0
> +     RESTORE_RSI_RDI

I heard there will be a v2 so I'll probably wait for it to review this patch
which really requires 0db where I sit.

But the macro names like above look much clearer as well!
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