[tip:x86/pti] x86/asm: Pad assembly functions with INT3 instructions

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Commit-ID:  51bad67ffbce0aaa44579f84ef5d05597054ec6a
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/51bad67ffbce0aaa44579f84ef5d05597054ec6a
Author:     Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue, 8 May 2018 00:37:55 +0300
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Mon, 14 May 2018 11:43:03 +0200

x86/asm: Pad assembly functions with INT3 instructions

Use INT3 instead of NOP. All that padding between functions is
an illegal area, no legitimate code should jump into it.

I've checked x86_64 allyesconfig disassembly, all changes looks sane:
INT3 is only used after RET or unconditional JMP.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <h.peter.anvin@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180507213755.GA32406@avx2
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/linkage.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/linkage.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/linkage.h
index 14caa9d9fb7f..c0b70bc1e659 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/linkage.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/linkage.h
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 	name:
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_X86_64) || defined(CONFIG_X86_ALIGNMENT_16)
-#define __ALIGN		.p2align 4, 0x90
+#define __ALIGN		.p2align 4, 0xCC
 #define __ALIGN_STR	__stringify(__ALIGN)
 #endif
 
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