This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/alternatives: Make optimize_nops() interrupt safe and synced
to the 4.2-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-alternatives-make-optimize_nops-interrupt-safe-and-synced.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.2 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 66c117d7fa2ae429911e60d84bf31a90b2b96189 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 12:34:55 +0200
Subject: x86/alternatives: Make optimize_nops() interrupt safe and synced
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 66c117d7fa2ae429911e60d84bf31a90b2b96189 upstream.
Richard reported the following crash:
[ 0.036000] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 55501e06
[ 0.036000] IP: [<c0aae48b>] common_interrupt+0xb/0x38
[ 0.036000] Call Trace:
[ 0.036000] [<c0409c80>] ? add_nops+0x90/0xa0
[ 0.036000] [<c040a054>] apply_alternatives+0x274/0x630
Chuck decoded:
" 0: 8d 90 90 83 04 24 lea 0x24048390(%eax),%edx
6: 80 fc 0f cmp $0xf,%ah
9: a8 0f test $0xf,%al
>> b: a0 06 1e 50 55 mov 0x55501e06,%al
10: 57 push %edi
11: 56 push %esi
Interrupt 0x30 occurred while the alternatives code was replacing the
initial 0x90,0x90,0x90 NOPs (from the ASM_CLAC macro) with the
optimized version, 0x8d,0x76,0x00. Only the first byte has been
replaced so far, and it makes a mess out of the insn decoding."
optimize_nops() is buggy in two aspects:
- It's not disabling interrupts across the modification
- It's lacking a sync_core() call
Add both.
Fixes: 4fd4b6e5537c 'x86/alternatives: Use optimized NOPs for padding'
Reported-and-tested-by: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1509031232340.15006@nanos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -338,10 +338,15 @@ done:
static void __init_or_module optimize_nops(struct alt_instr *a, u8 *instr)
{
+ unsigned long flags;
+
if (instr[0] != 0x90)
return;
+ local_irq_save(flags);
add_nops(instr + (a->instrlen - a->padlen), a->padlen);
+ sync_core();
+ local_irq_restore(flags);
DUMP_BYTES(instr, a->instrlen, "%p: [%d:%d) optimized NOPs: ",
instr, a->instrlen - a->padlen, a->padlen);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.2/time-fix-timekeeping_freqadjust-s-incorrect-use-of-abs-instead-of-abs64.patch
queue-4.2/x86-platform-fix-geode-lx-timekeeping-in-the-generic-x86-build.patch
queue-4.2/x86-pci-intel_mid_pci-work-around-for-irq0-assignment.patch
queue-4.2/x86-ioapic-force-affinity-setting-in-setup_ioapic_dest.patch
queue-4.2/x86-alternatives-make-optimize_nops-interrupt-safe-and-synced.patch
queue-4.2/x86-apic-serialize-lvtt-and-tsc_deadline-writes.patch
queue-4.2/perf-x86-intel-fix-constraint-access.patch
queue-4.2/locking-qspinlock-x86-only-emit-the-test-and-set-fallback-when-building-guest-support.patch
queue-4.2/locking-qspinlock-x86-fix-performance-regression-under-unaccelerated-vms.patch
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