x86/alternatives: Sync core before enabling interrupts
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Thu, 7 Dec 2023 19:49:24 +0000 (20:49 +0100)
committerBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Fri, 15 Dec 2023 18:34:42 +0000 (19:34 +0100)
commit3ea1704a92967834bf0e64ca1205db4680d04048
treeade272a2d4da541fe47859879d7e7b33d4c931d7
parent69a7386c1ec25476a0c78ffeb59de08a2a08f495
x86/alternatives: Sync core before enabling interrupts

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
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c