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Borislav Petkov 2b31e8ed96 x86/alternative: Optimize single-byte NOPs at an arbitrary position

Up until now the assumption was that an alternative patching site would
have some instructions at the beginning and trailing single-byte NOPs
(0x90) padding. Therefore, the patching machinery would go and optimize
those single-byte NOPs into longer ones.

However, this assumption is broken on 32-bit when code like
hv_do_hypercall() in hyperv_init() would use the ratpoline speculation
killer CALL_NOSPEC. The 32-bit version of that macro would align certain
insns to 16 bytes, leading to the compiler issuing a one or more
single-byte NOPs, depending on the holes it needs to fill for alignment.

That would lead to the warning in optimize_nops() to fire:

  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  Not a NOP at 0xc27fb598
   WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:211 optimize_nops.isra.13

due to that function verifying whether all of the following bytes really
are single-byte NOPs.

Therefore, carve out the NOP padding into a separate function and call
it for each NOP range beginning with a single-byte NOP.

Fixes: 23c1ad538f4f ("x86/alternatives: Optimize optimize_nops()")
Reported-by: Richard Narron <richard@aaazen.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213301
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210601212125.17145-1-bp@alien8.de

2021-06-03 16:33:09 +02:00

alpha

quota: Disable quotactl_path syscall

2021-05-17 14:39:56 +02:00

arc

ARC: mm: Use max_high_pfn as a HIGHMEM zone border

2021-05-10 12:38:59 -07:00

arm

A few fixes for irqchip drivers:

2021-05-23 06:28:20 -10:00

arm64

ARM: SoC fixes for 5.13