From 612e8e9350fd19cae6900cf36ea0c6892d1a0dca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 12:28:16 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] x86/alternatives: Fix optimize_nops() checking
The alternatives code checks only the first byte whether it is a NOP, but
with NOPs in front of the payload and having actual instructions after it
breaks the "optimized' test.
Make sure to scan all bytes before deciding to optimize the NOPs in there.
Reported-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180110112815.mgciyf5acwacphkq@pd.tnic
---
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
index 3344d3382e913..e0b97e4d1db55 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -344,9 +344,12 @@ done:
static void __init_or_module noinline optimize_nops(struct alt_instr *a, u8 *instr)
{
unsigned long flags;
+ int i;
- if (instr[0] != 0x90)
- return;
+ for (i = 0; i < a->padlen; i++) {
+ if (instr[i] != 0x90)
+ return;
+ }
local_irq_save(flags);
add_nops(instr + (a->instrlen - a->padlen), a->padlen);
--
2.30.2