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x86/alternatives: Prevent uninitialized stack byte read in apply_alternatives() 

In the current form of the code, if a->replacementlen is 0, the reference
to *insnbuf for comparison touches potentially garbage memory. While it
doesn't affect the execution flow due to the subsequent a->replacementlen
comparison, it is (rightly) detected as use of uninitialized memory by a
runtime instrumentation currently under my development, and could be
detected as such by other tools in the future, too (e.g. KMSAN).

Fix the "false-positive" by reordering the conditions to first check the
replacement instruction length before referencing specific opcode bytes.

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Jurczyk <mjurczyk@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170524135500.27223-1-mjurczyk@google.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Mateusz Jurczyk 2017-05-24 15:55:00 +02:00 committed by Thomas Gleixner
parent cbed27cdf0
commit fc152d22d6
1 changed files with 7 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -409,8 +409,13 @@ void __init_or_module noinline apply_alternatives(struct alt_instr *start,
memcpy(insnbuf, replacement, a->replacementlen);
insnbuf_sz = a->replacementlen;
/* 0xe8 is a relative jump; fix the offset. */
if (*insnbuf == 0xe8 && a->replacementlen == 5) {
/*
* 0xe8 is a relative jump; fix the offset.
*
* Instruction length is checked before the opcode to avoid
* accessing uninitialized bytes for zero-length replacements.
*/
if (a->replacementlen == 5 && *insnbuf == 0xe8) {
*(s32 *)(insnbuf + 1) += replacement - instr;
DPRINTK("Fix CALL offset: 0x%x, CALL 0x%lx",
*(s32 *)(insnbuf + 1),