[tip: x86/cleanups] x86/uaccess: Improve __try_cmpxchg64_user_asm() for x86_32

From: tip-bot2 for Uros Bizjak
Date: Mon Aug 15 2022 - 17:38:15 EST


The following commit has been merged into the x86/cleanups branch of tip:

Commit-ID: 4630535c64725bcd722eb59fb8d92be8db943d3d
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/4630535c64725bcd722eb59fb8d92be8db943d3d
Author: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 18:16:12 +02:00
Committer: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
CommitterDate: Mon, 15 Aug 2022 19:18:12 +02:00

x86/uaccess: Improve __try_cmpxchg64_user_asm() for x86_32

Improve __try_cmpxcgh64_user_asm() for !CONFIG_CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_TIED_OUTPUT
by relaxing the output register constraint from "c" to "q" constraint,
which allows the compiler to choose between %ecx or %ebx register.

Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220628161612.7993-1-ubizjak@xxxxxxxxx
---
arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h | 11 ++++++-----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h
index 913e593..b0583c1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h
@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ do { \

#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
/*
- * Unlike the normal CMPXCHG, hardcode ECX for both success/fail and error.
+ * Unlike the normal CMPXCHG, use output GPR for both success/fail and error.
* There are only six GPRs available and four (EAX, EBX, ECX, and EDX) are
* hardcoded by CMPXCHG8B, leaving only ESI and EDI. If the compiler uses
* both ESI and EDI for the memory operand, compilation will fail if the error
@@ -461,11 +461,12 @@ do { \
__typeof__(*(_ptr)) __new = (_new); \
asm volatile("\n" \
"1: " LOCK_PREFIX "cmpxchg8b %[ptr]\n" \
- "mov $0, %%ecx\n\t" \
- "setz %%cl\n" \
+ "mov $0, %[result]\n\t" \
+ "setz %b[result]\n" \
"2:\n" \
- _ASM_EXTABLE_TYPE_REG(1b, 2b, EX_TYPE_EFAULT_REG, %%ecx) \
- : [result]"=c" (__result), \
+ _ASM_EXTABLE_TYPE_REG(1b, 2b, EX_TYPE_EFAULT_REG, \
+ %[result]) \
+ : [result] "=q" (__result), \
"+A" (__old), \
[ptr] "+m" (*_ptr) \
: "b" ((u32)__new), \