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Re: [RFC PATCH 13/21] x86/asm/crypto: Fix frame pointer usage in aesni-intel_asm.S

From Gustavo da Silva <gustavodasilva@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC PATCH 13/21] x86/asm/crypto: Fix frame pointer usage in aesni-intel_asm.S
Date 2015-07-18 23:10 +0200
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Hi, brothers.

I was reading the e-mails about the topic, and I have a simple suggestion:

FRAMED_FUNCTION_ENTRYPOINT(xyz)
...
FRAMED_FUNCTION_RETPOINT(xyz)

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Atenciosamente,

Gustavo da Silva.
(Brazil)

> On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 04:25:25PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 08:46:55AM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> > > I like the balance, but the "ret" is still non-obvious.
> >
> > Does it have to be obvious?
>
> I feel that making "ret" obvious is better.
>
> But if somebody messes up and adds a second "ret", I suppose
> stackvalidate would warn about the fact that it returned without
> restoring the frame pointer.  So if there are no other objections, your
> suggestion of ENTRY_FRAME and ENDPROC_FRAME is fine with me.
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Re: [RFC PATCH 13/21] x86/asm/crypto: Fix frame pointer usage in aesni-intel_asm.S Gustavo da Silva <gustavodasilva@gmail.com> - 2015-07-18 23:10 +0200

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