[PATCH] selftests: kvm: Use a shorter encoding to clear RAX

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Mon Aug 17 2020 - 13:26:24 EST


From: Yang Weijiang <weijiang.yang@xxxxxxxxx>

If debug_regs.c is built with newer binutils, the resulting binary is "optimized"
by the assembler:

asm volatile("ss_start: "
"xor %%rax,%%rax\n\t"
"cpuid\n\t"
"movl $0x1a0,%%ecx\n\t"
"rdmsr\n\t"
: : : "rax", "ecx");

is translated to :

000000000040194e <ss_start>:
40194e: 31 c0 xor %eax,%eax <----- rax->eax?
401950: 0f a2 cpuid
401952: b9 a0 01 00 00 mov $0x1a0,%ecx
401957: 0f 32 rdmsr

As you can see rax is replaced with eax in target binary code.
This causes a difference is the length of xor instruction (2 Byte vs 3 Byte),
and makes the hard-coded instruction length check fail:

/* Instruction lengths starting at ss_start */
int ss_size[4] = {
3, /* xor */ <-------- 2 or 3?
2, /* cpuid */
5, /* mov */
2, /* rdmsr */
};

Encode the shorter version directly and, while at it, fix the "clobbers"
of the asm.

Reported-by: Yang Weijiang <weijiang.yang@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86_64/debug_regs.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86_64/debug_regs.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86_64/debug_regs.c
index 8162c58a1234..b8d14f9db5f9 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86_64/debug_regs.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86_64/debug_regs.c
@@ -40,11 +40,11 @@ static void guest_code(void)

/* Single step test, covers 2 basic instructions and 2 emulated */
asm volatile("ss_start: "
- "xor %%rax,%%rax\n\t"
+ "xor %%eax,%%eax\n\t"
"cpuid\n\t"
"movl $0x1a0,%%ecx\n\t"
"rdmsr\n\t"
- : : : "rax", "ecx");
+ : : : "eax", "ebx", "ecx", "edx");

/* DR6.BD test */
asm volatile("bd_start: mov %%dr0, %%rax" : : : "rax");
--
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