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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


  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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