x86/altcall: further refine clang workaround

The current code in ALT_CALL_ARG() won't successfully workaround the clang
code-generation issue if the arg parameter has a size that's not a power of 2.
While there are no such sized parameters at the moment, improve the workaround
to also be effective when such sizes are used.

Instead of using a union with a long use an unsigned long that's first
initialized to 0 and afterwards set to the argument value.

Reported-by: Alejandro Vallejo <alejandro.vallejo@cloud.com>
Suggested-by: Alejandro Vallejo <alejandro.vallejo@cloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
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Roger Pau Monné authored and Jan Beulich committed 2024-07-31 12:41:22 +02:00
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@@ -169,27 +169,25 @@ extern void alternative_branches(void);
#ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG
/*
* Use a union with an unsigned long in order to prevent clang from
* skipping a possible truncation of the value. By using the union any
* truncation is carried before the call instruction, in turn covering
* for ABI-non-compliance in that the necessary clipping / extension of
* the value is supposed to be carried out in the callee.
* Clang doesn't follow the psABI and doesn't truncate parameter values at the
* callee. This can lead to bad code being generated when using alternative
* calls.
*
* Note this behavior is not mandated by the standard, and hence could
* stop being a viable workaround, or worse, could cause a different set
* of code-generation issues in future clang versions.
* Workaround it by using a temporary intermediate variable that's zeroed
* before being assigned the parameter value, as that forces clang to zero the
* register at the caller.
*
* This has been reported upstream:
* https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/12579
* https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/82598
*/
#define ALT_CALL_ARG(arg, n) \
register union { \
typeof(arg) e[sizeof(long) / sizeof(arg)]; \
unsigned long r; \
} a ## n ## _ asm ( ALT_CALL_arg ## n ) = { \
.e[0] = ({ BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(arg) > sizeof(void *)); (arg); })\
}
register unsigned long a ## n ## _ asm ( ALT_CALL_arg ## n ) = ({ \
unsigned long tmp = 0; \
BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(arg) > sizeof(unsigned long)); \
*(typeof(arg) *)&tmp = (arg); \
tmp; \
})
#else
#define ALT_CALL_ARG(arg, n) \
register typeof(arg) a ## n ## _ asm ( ALT_CALL_arg ## n ) = \
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