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| author | Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> | 2015-01-10 22:34:07 +0300 |
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| committer | Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> | 2018-01-07 04:46:50 +0300 |
| commit | 2bf370c889e55dca0f673dd1ee688b242f2eb881 (patch) | |
| tree | fbde7936eb67fdda7b2d1eaa70b02c801e62e6cc /arch | |
| parent | 0b01b7c297106bcbd52bb4e65109f41a21ac9bef (diff) | |
| download | linux-2bf370c889e55dca0f673dd1ee688b242f2eb881.tar.xz | |
x86/alternatives: Use optimized NOPs for padding
commit 4fd4b6e5537cec5b56db0b22546dd439ebb26830 upstream.
Alternatives allow now for an empty old instruction. In this case we go
and pad the space with NOPs at assembly time. However, there are the
optimal, longer NOPs which should be used. Do that at patching time by
adding alt_instr.padlen-sized NOPs at the old instruction address.
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c index 56c04fadf275..ca2430fbc6b3 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c @@ -334,6 +334,14 @@ done: n_dspl, (unsigned long)orig_insn + n_dspl + repl_len); } +static void __init_or_module optimize_nops(struct alt_instr *a, u8 *instr) +{ + add_nops(instr + (a->instrlen - a->padlen), a->padlen); + + DUMP_BYTES(instr, a->instrlen, "%p: [%d:%d) optimized NOPs: ", + instr, a->instrlen - a->padlen, a->padlen); +} + /* * Replace instructions with better alternatives for this CPU type. This runs * before SMP is initialized to avoid SMP problems with self modifying code. @@ -365,8 +373,12 @@ void __init_or_module apply_alternatives(struct alt_instr *start, replacement = (u8 *)&a->repl_offset + a->repl_offset; BUG_ON(a->instrlen > sizeof(insnbuf)); BUG_ON(a->cpuid >= NCAPINTS*32); - if (!boot_cpu_has(a->cpuid)) + if (!boot_cpu_has(a->cpuid)) { + if (a->padlen > 1) + optimize_nops(a, instr); + continue; + } DPRINTK("feat: %d*32+%d, old: (%p, len: %d), repl: (%p, len: %d)", a->cpuid >> 5, |