This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/alternative: Support not-feature
to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
x86-alternative-support-not-feature.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Tue Jul 12 05:07:35 PM CEST 2022
From: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2021 15:23:10 +0100
Subject: x86/alternative: Support not-feature
From: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
commit dda7bb76484978316bb412a353789ebc5901de36 upstream.
Add support for alternative patching for the case a feature is not
present on the current CPU. For users of ALTERNATIVE() and friends, an
inverted feature is specified by applying the ALT_NOT() macro to it,
e.g.:
ALTERNATIVE(old, new, ALT_NOT(feature));
Committer note:
The decision to encode the NOT-bit in the feature bit itself is because
a future change which would make objtool generate such alternative
calls, would keep the code in objtool itself fairly simple.
Also, this allows for the alternative macros to support the NOT feature
without having to change them.
Finally, the u16 cpuid member encoding the X86_FEATURE_ flags is not an
ABI so if more bits are needed, cpuid itself can be enlarged or a flags
field can be added to struct alt_instr after having considered the size
growth in either cases.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210311142319.4723-6-jgross@xxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h | 3 +++
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 20 +++++++++++++++-----
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
#include <linux/stringify.h>
#include <asm/asm.h>
+#define ALTINSTR_FLAG_INV (1 << 15)
+#define ALT_NOT(feat) ((feat) | ALTINSTR_FLAG_INV)
+
#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
#include <linux/stddef.h>
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -388,21 +388,31 @@ void __init_or_module noinline apply_alt
*/
for (a = start; a < end; a++) {
int insn_buff_sz = 0;
+ /* Mask away "NOT" flag bit for feature to test. */
+ u16 feature = a->cpuid & ~ALTINSTR_FLAG_INV;
instr = (u8 *)&a->instr_offset + a->instr_offset;
replacement = (u8 *)&a->repl_offset + a->repl_offset;
BUG_ON(a->instrlen > sizeof(insn_buff));
- BUG_ON(a->cpuid >= (NCAPINTS + NBUGINTS) * 32);
- if (!boot_cpu_has(a->cpuid)) {
+ BUG_ON(feature >= (NCAPINTS + NBUGINTS) * 32);
+
+ /*
+ * Patch if either:
+ * - feature is present
+ * - feature not present but ALTINSTR_FLAG_INV is set to mean,
+ * patch if feature is *NOT* present.
+ */
+ if (!boot_cpu_has(feature) == !(a->cpuid & ALTINSTR_FLAG_INV)) {
if (a->padlen > 1)
optimize_nops(a, instr);
continue;
}
- DPRINTK("feat: %d*32+%d, old: (%pS (%px) len: %d), repl: (%px, len: %d), pad: %d",
- a->cpuid >> 5,
- a->cpuid & 0x1f,
+ DPRINTK("feat: %s%d*32+%d, old: (%pS (%px) len: %d), repl: (%px, len: %d), pad: %d",
+ (a->cpuid & ALTINSTR_FLAG_INV) ? "!" : "",
+ feature >> 5,
+ feature & 0x1f,
instr, instr, a->instrlen,
replacement, a->replacementlen, a->padlen);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jgross@xxxxxxxx are
queue-5.10/x86-alternative-merge-include-files.patch
queue-5.10/x86-xen-support-objtool-vmlinux.o-validation-in-xen-head.s.patch
queue-5.10/x86-alternative-support-not-feature.patch
queue-5.10/x86-xen-support-objtool-validation-in-xen-asm.s.patch
queue-5.10/x86-alternative-support-alternative_ternary.patch
queue-5.10/x86-alternative-use-alternative_ternary-in-_static_cpu_has.patch
