From: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mfo@igalia.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>, Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: kernel-dev@igalia.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mfo@igalia.com>
Subject: [PATCH v9 1/5] x86/boot: Remove "cc" clobber from memcmp()
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2026 15:33:17 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260822-pvh-kasan-inline-v9-1-e70ef3b75b6a@igalia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260822-pvh-kasan-inline-v9-0-e70ef3b75b6a@igalia.com>
According to the GCC documentation, conditions in the flags register
(e.g., "=@ccnz") are output operands [1] and the compiler is aware [2].
Also, clobbers (e.g., "cc") may not overlap with an output operand [2].
Thus, remove the "cc" clobber as it is redudant, and overlaps with, the
"=@ccnz" output operand.
"""
6.11.2.4 Flag Output Operands
On some targets, a special form of output operand exists by which
conditions in the flags register may be outputs of the asm. [...]
6.11.2.6 Clobbers and Scratch Registers
While the compiler is aware of changes to entries listed in the
output operands, [...]
Clobber descriptions may not in any way overlap with an input or
output operand. [...]
"""
Reported-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/5e19b195-0ca2-4510-81cb-497b40e4aaf5@zytor.com/
Fixes: a8c171c107c0 ("x86/boot: Add volatile, clobbers and zero-length test in memcmp()")
Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mfo@igalia.com>
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Extended-Asm.html#Flag-Output-Operands [1]
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Extended-Asm.html#Clobbers-and-Scratch-Registers-1 [2]
---
arch/x86/boot/string.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/string.c b/arch/x86/boot/string.c
index 1632d40e1f545ae0665597069b568ea6b6c263e5..03278b4393887cb71cb063818d3378c4f52b06f8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/string.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/string.c
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ int memcmp(const void *s1, const void *s2, size_t len)
asm volatile("test %3, %3\n\t"
"repe cmpsb"
: "=@ccnz" (diff), "+D" (s1), "+S" (s2), "+c" (len)
- : : "cc", "memory");
+ : : "memory");
return diff;
}
--
2.47.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-22 18:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-22 18:33 [PATCH v9 0/5] x86/pvh: fix unbootable VMs again (PVH + KASAN) Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2026-08-22 18:33 ` Mauricio Faria de Oliveira [this message]
2026-09-01 13:16 ` [PATCH v9 1/5] x86/boot: Remove "cc" clobber from memcmp() Jan Beulich
2026-09-02 8:33 ` David Laight
2026-09-02 14:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2026-09-02 2:31 ` Borislav Petkov
2026-09-02 13:29 ` Michael Matz
2026-09-02 13:48 ` Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2026-09-03 0:01 ` Borislav Petkov
2026-09-03 0:07 ` Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2026-09-03 0:39 ` Borislav Petkov
2026-09-03 8:40 ` David Laight
2026-09-02 23:58 ` Borislav Petkov
2026-08-22 18:33 ` [PATCH v9 2/5] x86/asm, x86/boot: expose inline memcmp() Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2026-09-06 17:01 ` Borislav Petkov
2026-09-06 18:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2026-09-08 18:04 ` Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2026-09-08 19:32 ` Borislav Petkov
2026-09-08 21:06 ` Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2026-09-10 3:38 ` Borislav Petkov
2026-09-10 13:07 ` Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2026-09-10 14:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2026-09-08 23:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2026-09-09 8:38 ` David Laight
2026-09-09 13:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2026-09-09 19:28 ` David Laight
2026-09-09 19:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2026-09-09 21:39 ` David Laight
2026-09-09 23:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2026-09-08 17:57 ` Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2026-08-22 18:33 ` [PATCH v9 3/5] x86/asm: group inline string functions Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2026-08-22 18:33 ` [PATCH v9 4/5] x86/cpuid: fix unbootable VMs by really inlining memcmp() in hypervisor_cpuid_base() Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2026-09-11 4:38 ` Borislav Petkov
2026-09-14 11:22 ` Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2026-09-15 5:11 ` Borislav Petkov
2026-09-15 8:43 ` David Laight
2026-09-15 15:48 ` Borislav Petkov
2026-09-15 23:49 ` Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2026-09-16 0:04 ` Borislav Petkov
2026-09-16 0:52 ` Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2026-08-22 18:33 ` [PATCH v9 5/5] x86/pvh: fix unbootable VMs by really inlining memset() in xen_prepare_pvh() Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2026-09-11 4:39 ` Borislav Petkov
2026-09-14 11:40 ` Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2026-09-15 5:26 ` Borislav Petkov
2026-09-15 23:55 ` Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
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