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Josh Poimboeuf
authored
The kbuild bot reported the following warning with GCC 4.4 and a
randconfig:
net/socket.o: warning: objtool: compat_sock_ioctl()+0x1083: stack state mismatch: cfa1=7+160 cfa2=-1+0
This is caused by another GCC non-optimization, where it backs up and
restores the stack pointer for no apparent reason:
2f91: 48 89 e0 mov %rsp,%rax
2f94: 4c 89 e7 mov %r12,%rdi
2f97: 4c 89 f6 mov %r14,%rsi
2f9a: ba 20 00 00 00 mov $0x20,%edx
2f9f: 48 89 c4 mov %rax,%rsp
This issue would have been happily ignored before the following commit:
dd88a0a0 ("objtool: Handle GCC stack pointer adjustment bug")
But now that objtool is paying attention to such stack pointer writes
to/from a register, it needs to understand them properly. In this case
that means recognizing that the "mov %rsp, %rax" instruction is
potentially a backup of the stack pointer.
Reported-by: 
kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: 
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
Cc: Miguel Bernal Marin <miguel.bernal.marin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: dd88a0a0 ("objtool: Handle GCC stack pointer adjustment bug")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8c7aa8e9a36fbbb6655d9d8e7cea58958c912da8.1505942196.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: 
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>