Patch "x86/alternative: Use ALTERNATIVE_TERNARY() in _static_cpu_has()" has been added to the 5.10-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    x86/alternative: Use ALTERNATIVE_TERNARY() in _static_cpu_has()

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-use-alternative_ternary-in-_static_cpu_has.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 15:23:12 +0100
Subject: x86/alternative: Use ALTERNATIVE_TERNARY() in _static_cpu_has()

From: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>

commit 2fe2a2c7a97c9bc32acc79154b75e754280f7867 upstream.

_static_cpu_has() contains a completely open coded version of
ALTERNATIVE_TERNARY(). Replace that with the macro instead.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210311142319.4723-8-jgross@xxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h |   41 ++++++++------------------------------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 
 #include <asm/asm.h>
 #include <linux/bitops.h>
+#include <asm/alternative.h>
 
 enum cpuid_leafs
 {
@@ -172,39 +173,15 @@ extern void clear_cpu_cap(struct cpuinfo
  */
 static __always_inline bool _static_cpu_has(u16 bit)
 {
-	asm_volatile_goto("1: jmp 6f\n"
-		 "2:\n"
-		 ".skip -(((5f-4f) - (2b-1b)) > 0) * "
-			 "((5f-4f) - (2b-1b)),0x90\n"
-		 "3:\n"
-		 ".section .altinstructions,\"a\"\n"
-		 " .long 1b - .\n"		/* src offset */
-		 " .long 4f - .\n"		/* repl offset */
-		 " .word %P[always]\n"		/* always replace */
-		 " .byte 3b - 1b\n"		/* src len */
-		 " .byte 5f - 4f\n"		/* repl len */
-		 " .byte 3b - 2b\n"		/* pad len */
-		 ".previous\n"
-		 ".section .altinstr_replacement,\"ax\"\n"
-		 "4: jmp %l[t_no]\n"
-		 "5:\n"
-		 ".previous\n"
-		 ".section .altinstructions,\"a\"\n"
-		 " .long 1b - .\n"		/* src offset */
-		 " .long 0\n"			/* no replacement */
-		 " .word %P[feature]\n"		/* feature bit */
-		 " .byte 3b - 1b\n"		/* src len */
-		 " .byte 0\n"			/* repl len */
-		 " .byte 0\n"			/* pad len */
-		 ".previous\n"
-		 ".section .altinstr_aux,\"ax\"\n"
-		 "6:\n"
-		 " testb %[bitnum],%[cap_byte]\n"
-		 " jnz %l[t_yes]\n"
-		 " jmp %l[t_no]\n"
-		 ".previous\n"
+	asm_volatile_goto(
+		ALTERNATIVE_TERNARY("jmp 6f", %P[feature], "", "jmp %l[t_no]")
+		".section .altinstr_aux,\"ax\"\n"
+		"6:\n"
+		" testb %[bitnum],%[cap_byte]\n"
+		" jnz %l[t_yes]\n"
+		" jmp %l[t_no]\n"
+		".previous\n"
 		 : : [feature]  "i" (bit),
-		     [always]   "i" (X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS),
 		     [bitnum]   "i" (1 << (bit & 7)),
 		     [cap_byte] "m" (((const char *)boot_cpu_data.x86_capability)[bit >> 3])
 		 : : t_yes, t_no);


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



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