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Re: [PATCH] x86: Implement __WARN using UD0

From hpa@zytor.com
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Subject Re: [PATCH] x86: Implement __WARN using UD0
Date 2017-02-23 16:20 +0100
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On February 23, 2017 6:09:29 AM PST, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 02:28:13PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> + * Since various instruction decoders disagree on the length of UD1,
>> + * we cannot use it either. So use UD0 for WARN.
>> + *
>> + * (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)
>> + */
>> +
>> +#define ASM_UD0		".byte 0x0f, 0xff"
>> +#define ASM_UD1		".byte 0x0f, 0xb9" /* + ModRM */
>> +#define ASM_UD2		".byte 0x0f, 0x0b"
>
>http://repo.or.cz/nasm.git/blob/HEAD:/x86/insns.dat
>
>has:
>
>1378 UD0             void                            [       0f ff]    
>                             186,UNDOC
>1379 UD1             void                            [       0f b9]    
>                             186,UNDOC
>1380 UD2B            void                            [       0f b9]    
>                             186,UNDOC,ND
>1381 UD2             void                            [       0f 0b]    
>                             186
>1382 UD2A            void                            [       0f 0b]    
>                             186,ND
>
>which seems to use the 2 byte version of UD1.
>
>hpa, any input?

Well, it only matters if the instruction extends past a segment boundary or page.  However, the CPU instruction decoder will consume a modrm for UD1, and so using just the two opcode bytes may cause a #PF or #GP when a #UD was intended.

This was documented very recently and Nasm hasn't caught up yet (hence the UNDOC flag.)
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[PATCH] x86: Implement __WARN using UD0 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-02-23 14:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] x86: Implement __WARN using UD0 Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> - 2017-02-23 15:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] x86: Implement __WARN using UD0 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-02-23 16:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] x86: Implement __WARN using UD0 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-02-24 09:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] x86: Implement __WARN using UD0 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-02-24 09:40 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] x86: Implement __WARN using UD0 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-02-24 10:20 +0100
            Re: [PATCH] x86: Implement __WARN using UD0 Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-02-24 10:50 +0100
              Re: [PATCH] x86: Implement __WARN using UD0 "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2017-02-24 12:50 +0100
            Re: [PATCH] x86: Implement __WARN using UD0 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-02-24 12:50 +0100
              Re: [PATCH] x86: Implement __WARN using UD0 Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-02-25 11:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] x86: Implement __WARN using UD0 hpa@zytor.com - 2017-02-25 19:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] x86: Implement __WARN using UD0 Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-02-25 20:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] x86: Implement __WARN using UD0 Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-02-25 21:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] x86: Implement __WARN using UD0 hpa@zytor.com - 2017-02-25 21:50 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] x86: Implement __WARN using UD0 hpa@zytor.com - 2017-02-24 10:20 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] x86: Implement __WARN using UD0 hpa@zytor.com - 2017-02-24 10:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] x86: Implement __WARN using UD0 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-02-23 15:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] x86: Implement __WARN using UD0 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-02-23 16:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] x86: Implement __WARN using UD0 hpa@zytor.com - 2017-02-23 16:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] x86: Implement __WARN using UD0 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-02-23 16:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] x86: Implement __WARN using UD0 hpa@zytor.com - 2017-02-23 16:40 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] x86: Implement __WARN using UD0 Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-02-23 17:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] x86: Implement __WARN using UD0 Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2017-02-23 15:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] x86: Implement __WARN using UD0 Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-02-23 15:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] x86: Implement __WARN using UD0 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-02-23 15:40 +0100
  [PATCH -v2] x86: Implement __WARN using UD0 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-02-24 12:20 +0100
    [RFC][PATCH] bug: Add _ONCE logic to report_bug() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-02-25 10:10 +0100
      Re: [RFC][PATCH] bug: Add _ONCE logic to report_bug() Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-02-25 10:20 +0100
        Re: [RFC][PATCH] bug: Add _ONCE logic to report_bug() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-02-25 11:50 +0100

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