[PATCH 1/2] stackleak: Update for arm64

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Thu Feb 22 08:58:34 PST 2018


Hi Laura,

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 05:13:02PM -0800, Laura Abbott wrote:
> 
> arm64 has another layer of indirection in the RTL.
> Account for this in the plugin.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott at redhat.com>
> ---
>  scripts/gcc-plugins/stackleak_plugin.c | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/gcc-plugins/stackleak_plugin.c b/scripts/gcc-plugins/stackleak_plugin.c
> index 6fc991c98d8b..7dfaa027423f 100644
> --- a/scripts/gcc-plugins/stackleak_plugin.c
> +++ b/scripts/gcc-plugins/stackleak_plugin.c
> @@ -244,6 +244,11 @@ static unsigned int stackleak_final_execute(void)
>  		 * that insn.
>  		 */
>  		body = PATTERN(insn);
> +		/* arm64 is different */
> +		if (GET_CODE(body) == PARALLEL) {
> +			body = XEXP(body, 0);
> +			body = XEXP(body, 0);
> +		}

Like most kernel developers, I don't know the first thing about GCC internals
so I asked our GCC team and Richard (CC'd) reckons this should be:

	if (GET_CODE(body) == PARALLEL)
		body = XVECEXP(body, 0, 0);

instead of the hunk above. Can you give that a go instead, please?

Cheers,

Will



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