The following commit has been merged into the x86/urgent branch of tip:
Commit-ID: 9dba9c67e52dbe0978c0e86c994891eba480adf0
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/9dba9c67e52dbe0978c0e86c994891eba480adf0
Author: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed, 15 May 2024 12:48:04 +02:00
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitterDate: Fri, 17 May 2024 09:27:06 +02:00
x86/alternatives: Use the correct length when optimizing NOPs
Commit in Fixes moved the optimize_nops() call inside apply_relocation()
and made it a second optimization pass after the relocations have been
done.
Since optimize_nops() works only on NOPs, that is fine and it'll simply
jump over instructions which are not NOPs.
However, it made that call with repl_len as the buffer length to
optimize.
However, it can happen that there are alternatives calls like this one:
alternative("mfence; lfence", "", ALT_NOT(X86_FEATURE_APIC_MSRS_FENCE));
where the replacement length is 0. And using repl_len is wrong because
apply_alternatives() expands the buffer size to the length of the source
insn that is being patched, by padding it with one-byte NOPs:
for (; insn_buff_sz < a->instrlen; insn_buff_sz++)
insn_buff[insn_buff_sz] = 0x90;
Long story short: pass the length of the original instruction(s) as the
length of the temporary buffer which to optimize.
Result:
SMP alternatives: feat: 11*32+27, old: (lapic_next_deadline+0x9/0x50 (ffffffff81061829) len: 6), repl: (ffffffff89b1cc60, len: 0) flags: 0x1
SMP alternatives: ffffffff81061829: old_insn: 0f ae f0 0f ae e8
SMP alternatives: ffffffff81061829: final_insn: 90 90 90 90 90 90
=>
SMP alternatives: feat: 11*32+27, old: (lapic_next_deadline+0x9/0x50 (ffffffff81061839) len: 6), repl: (ffffffff89b1cc60, len: 0) flags: 0x1
SMP alternatives: ffffffff81061839: [0:6) optimized NOPs: 66 0f 1f 44 00 00
SMP alternatives: ffffffff81061839: old_insn: 0f ae f0 0f ae e8
SMP alternatives: ffffffff81061839: final_insn: 66 0f 1f 44 00 00
Fixes: da8f9cf7e721 ("x86/alternatives: Get rid of __optimize_nops()")
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240515104804.32004-1-bp@xxxxxxxxxx
---
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
index 7555c15..89de612 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ static void __apply_relocation(u8 *buf, const u8 * const instr, size_t instrlen,
void apply_relocation(u8 *buf, const u8 * const instr, size_t instrlen, u8 *repl, size_t repl_len)
{
__apply_relocation(buf, instr, instrlen, repl, repl_len);
- optimize_nops(instr, buf, repl_len);
+ optimize_nops(instr, buf, instrlen);
}
/* Low-level backend functions usable from alternative code replacements. */
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