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Mark Rutland noticed that GCC optimization passes have the potential to elide
necessary invocations of the array_index_mask_nospec() instruction sequence,
so mark the asm() volatile.
Mark explains:
"The volatile will inhibit *some* cases where the compiler could lift the
array_index_nospec() call out of a branch, e.g. where there are multiple
invocations of array_index_nospec() with the same arguments:
if (idx < foo) {
idx1 = array_idx_nospec(idx, foo)
do_something(idx1);
}
< some other code >
if (idx < foo) {
idx2 = array_idx_nospec(idx, foo);
do_something_else(idx2);
}
... since the compiler can determine that the two invocations yield the same
result, and reuse the first result (likely the same register as idx was in
originally) for the second branch, effectively re-writing the above as:
if (idx < foo) {
idx = array_idx_nospec(idx, foo);
do_something(idx);
}
< some other code >
if (idx < foo) {
do_something_else(idx);
}
... if we don't take the first branch, then speculatively take the second, we
lose the nospec protection.
There's more info on volatile asm in the GCC docs:
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Extended-Asm.html#Volatile
"
Reported-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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README
Linux kernel
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See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
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