From: Steven Rostedt Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:29:34 +0000 (-0500) Subject: x86: Specify a size for the cmp in the NMI handler X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a38449ef596b345e13a8f9b7d5cd9fedb8fcf921;p=linux-beck.git x86: Specify a size for the cmp in the NMI handler Linus noticed that the cmp used to check if the code segment is __KERNEL_CS or not did not specify a size. Perhaps it does not matter as H. Peter Anvin noted that user space can not set the bottom two bits of the %cs register. But it's best not to let the assembly choose and change things between different versions of gas, but instead just pick the size. Four bytes are used to compare the saved code segment against __KERNEL_CS. Perhaps this might mess up Xen, but we can fix that when the time comes. Also I noticed that there was another non-specified cmp that checks the special stack variable if it is 1 or 0. This too probably doesn't matter what cmp is used, but this patch uses cmpl just to make it non ambiguous. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFxfAn9MWRgS3O5k2tqN5ys1XrhSFVO5_9ZAoZKDVgNfGA@mail.gmail.com Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: H. Peter Anvin Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S index debd851de6ff..1333d9851778 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S @@ -1535,14 +1535,14 @@ ENTRY(nmi) * If %cs was not the kernel segment, then the NMI triggered in user * space, which means it is definitely not nested. */ - cmp $__KERNEL_CS, 16(%rsp) + cmpl $__KERNEL_CS, 16(%rsp) jne first_nmi /* * Check the special variable on the stack to see if NMIs are * executing. */ - cmp $1, -8(%rsp) + cmpl $1, -8(%rsp) je nested_nmi /*