linux/tools/arch/x86
Numfor Mbiziwo-Tiapo 5ba1071f75 x86/insn, tools/x86: Fix undefined behavior due to potential unaligned accesses
Don't perform unaligned loads in __get_next() and __peek_nbyte_next() as
these are forms of undefined behavior:

"A pointer to an object or incomplete type may be converted to a pointer
to a different object or incomplete type. If the resulting pointer
is not correctly aligned for the pointed-to type, the behavior is
undefined."

(from http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1256.pdf)

These problems were identified using the undefined behavior sanitizer
(ubsan) with the tools version of the code and perf test.

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Signed-off-by: Numfor Mbiziwo-Tiapo <nums@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210923161843.751834-1-irogers@google.com
2021-09-24 12:37:38 +02:00
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include tools headers UAPI: Sync x86's asm/kvm.h with the kernel sources 2021-09-10 18:15:22 -03:00
kcpuid tools/x86/kcpuid: Add AMD leaf 0x8000001E 2021-03-18 11:36:14 +01:00
lib x86/insn, tools/x86: Fix undefined behavior due to potential unaligned accesses 2021-09-24 12:37:38 +02:00
tools x86/insn: Make inat-tables.c suitable for pre-decompression code 2020-09-07 19:45:24 +02:00