The following commit has been merged into the x86/core branch of tip: Commit-ID: bbf92368b0b1fe472d489e62d3340d7897e9c697 Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/bbf92368b0b1fe472d489e62d3340d7897e9c697 Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Tue, 08 Mar 2022 16:30:19 +01:00 Committer: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> CommitterDate: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 10:32:33 +01:00 x86/text-patching: Make text_gen_insn() play nice with ANNOTATE_NOENDBR Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220308154317.638561109@xxxxxxxxxxxxx --- arch/x86/include/asm/text-patching.h | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/text-patching.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/text-patching.h index b742178..1c4cfb1 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/text-patching.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/text-patching.h @@ -101,13 +101,21 @@ void *text_gen_insn(u8 opcode, const void *addr, const void *dest) static union text_poke_insn insn; /* per instance */ int size = text_opcode_size(opcode); + /* + * Hide the addresses to avoid the compiler folding in constants when + * referencing code, these can mess up annotations like + * ANNOTATE_NOENDBR. + */ + OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR(addr); + OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR(dest); + insn.opcode = opcode; if (size > 1) { insn.disp = (long)dest - (long)(addr + size); if (size == 2) { /* - * Ensure that for JMP9 the displacement + * Ensure that for JMP8 the displacement * actually fits the signed byte. */ BUG_ON((insn.disp >> 31) != (insn.disp >> 7));