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x86/alternatives: Use optimized NOPs for padding 

Alternatives allow now for an empty old instruction. In this case we go
and pad the space with NOPs at assembly time. However, there are the
optimal, longer NOPs which should be used. Do that at patching time by
adding alt_instr.padlen-sized NOPs at the old instruction address.

Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Borislav Petkov 2015-01-10 20:34:07 +01:00
parent 48c7a2509f
commit 4fd4b6e553
1 changed files with 13 additions and 1 deletions
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arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
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@ -323,6 +323,14 @@ done:
n_dspl, (unsigned long)orig_insn + n_dspl + repl_len);
}
static void __init_or_module optimize_nops(struct alt_instr *a, u8 *instr)
{
add_nops(instr + (a->instrlen - a->padlen), a->padlen);
DUMP_BYTES(instr, a->instrlen, "%p: [%d:%d) optimized NOPs: ",
instr, a->instrlen - a->padlen, a->padlen);
}
/*
* Replace instructions with better alternatives for this CPU type. This runs
* before SMP is initialized to avoid SMP problems with self modifying code.
@ -354,8 +362,12 @@ void __init_or_module apply_alternatives(struct alt_instr *start,
replacement = (u8 *)&a->repl_offset + a->repl_offset;
BUG_ON(a->instrlen > sizeof(insnbuf));
BUG_ON(a->cpuid >= (NCAPINTS + NBUGINTS) * 32);
if (!boot_cpu_has(a->cpuid))
if (!boot_cpu_has(a->cpuid)) {
if (a->padlen > 1)
optimize_nops(a, instr);
continue;
}
DPRINTK("feat: %d*32+%d, old: (%p, len: %d), repl: (%p, len: %d)",
a->cpuid >> 5,