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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [linus:master] BUILD REGRESSION a2e5790d841658485d642196dbb0927303d6c22f
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 10:46:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180208094651.GA7964@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180208091302.GD25201@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 10:13:02AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/bug.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/bug.h
> index 34d99af43994..f0d5b4a1512d 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/bug.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/bug.h
> @@ -12,16 +12,21 @@
>   * (binutils knows about "ud1" but {en,de}codes it as 2 bytes, whereas
>   *  our kernel decoder thinks it takes a ModRM byte, which seems consistent
>   *  with various things like the Intel SDM instruction encoding rules)
> + *
> + * And now someone went and taught binutils about UD0 as taking a ModR/M too
> + * and it generates crap when disassembling the kernel. Stick a pointless 0xD6
> + * ModR/M on, which the old binutils decodes as (bad) and the new binutils sees
> + * as a valid single byte ModR/M.
>   */
>  
> -#define ASM_UD0		".byte 0x0f, 0xff"
> +#define ASM_UD0		".byte 0x0f, 0xff, 0xd6"

Yeah, we probably should say that it was SALC:

http://ref.x86asm.net/geek.html#xD6

but undefined after P4.

Not that it matters a whole lot after an UD0. And it still won't matter
if it gets redefined to some new fancy prefix.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-02-08  9:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-07 11:44 kbuild test robot
2018-02-07 18:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-02-07 18:35   ` Borislav Petkov
2018-02-07 18:49     ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-07 19:03       ` Linus Torvalds
2018-02-07 19:14         ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-07 19:28           ` Borislav Petkov
2018-02-07 19:43             ` Linus Torvalds
2018-02-07 20:24               ` Borislav Petkov
2018-02-08  9:13               ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-08  9:35                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-08  9:46                 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2018-02-08  9:47                 ` David Laight
2018-02-08 10:13                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-08 17:27                 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-02-08 18:03                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-08 18:15                     ` Linus Torvalds
2018-02-08 19:44                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-08 20:02                         ` Linus Torvalds
2018-02-08 20:31                         ` Borislav Petkov
2018-02-08 23:09                           ` [PATCH 0/2] objtool fixes on top of Peter's WARN UD2 patch Josh Poimboeuf
2018-02-08 23:09                             ` [PATCH 1/2] objtool: Fix seg fault in ignore_unreachable_insn() Josh Poimboeuf
2018-02-13 11:29                               ` [tip:x86/pti] objtool: Fix segfault " tip-bot for Josh Poimboeuf
2018-02-15  0:26                               ` tip-bot for Josh Poimboeuf
2018-02-08 23:09                             ` [PATCH 2/2] x86: Annotate WARN-related UD2 as reachable Josh Poimboeuf
2018-02-13 11:30                               ` [tip:x86/pti] x86/debug, objtool: Annotate WARN()-related " tip-bot for Josh Poimboeuf
2018-02-15  0:26                               ` tip-bot for Josh Poimboeuf
2018-02-09  8:13                             ` [PATCH 0/2] objtool fixes on top of Peter's WARN UD2 patch Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-09  8:12                           ` [linus:master] BUILD REGRESSION a2e5790d841658485d642196dbb0927303d6c22f Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-13 11:30                         ` [tip:x86/pti] x86/debug: Use UD2 for WARN() tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-15  0:27                         ` tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-07 18:38   ` [linus:master] BUILD REGRESSION a2e5790d841658485d642196dbb0927303d6c22f Randy Dunlap
2018-02-07 19:01     ` Linus Torvalds
2018-02-07 19:06       ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-07 19:10         ` Peter Zijlstra

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