c4a22227f7
commit 3ea1704a92967834bf0e64ca1205db4680d04048 upstream.
text_poke_early() does:
local_irq_save(flags);
memcpy(addr, opcode, len);
local_irq_restore(flags);
sync_core();
That's not really correct because the synchronization should happen before
interrupts are re-enabled to ensure that a pending interrupt observes the
complete update of the opcodes.
It's not entirely clear whether the interrupt entry provides enough
serialization already, but moving the sync_core() invocation into interrupt
disabled region does no harm and is obviously correct.
Fixes: 6fffacb30349 ("x86/alternatives, jumplabel: Use text_poke_early() before mm_init()")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZT6narvE%2BLxX%2B7Be@windriver.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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