x86/asm/entry/64: Implement better check for canonical addresses
This change makes the check exact (no more false positives on "negative" addresses). Andy explains: "Canonical addresses either start with 17 zeros or 17 ones. In the old code, we checked that the top (64-47) = 17 bits were all zero. We did this by shifting right by 47 bits and making sure that nothing was left. In the new code, we're shifting left by (64 - 48) = 16 bits and then signed shifting right by the same amount, this propagating the 17th highest bit to all positions to its left. If we get the same value we started with, then we're good to go." While it isn't really important to be fully correct here - almost all addresses we'll ever see will be userspace ones, but OTOH it looks to be cheap enough: the new code uses two more ALU ops but preserves %rcx, allowing to not reload it from pt_regs->cx again. On disassembly level, the changes are: cmp %rcx,0x80(%rsp) -> mov 0x80(%rsp),%r11; cmp %rcx,%r11 shr $0x2f,%rcx -> shl $0x10,%rcx; sar $0x10,%rcx; cmp %rcx,%r11 mov 0x58(%rsp),%rcx -> (eliminated) Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1429633649-20169-1-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com [ Changelog massage. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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