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Subject[tip:x86/urgent] x86/alternatives: Make optimize_nops() interrupt safe and synced
Commit-ID:  66c117d7fa2ae429911e60d84bf31a90b2b96189
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/66c117d7fa2ae429911e60d84bf31a90b2b96189
Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
AuthorDate: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 12:34:55 +0200
Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CommitDate: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 21:27:47 +0200

x86/alternatives: Make optimize_nops() interrupt safe and synced

Richard reported the following crash:

[ 0.036000] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 55501e06
[ 0.036000] IP: [<c0aae48b>] common_interrupt+0xb/0x38
[ 0.036000] Call Trace:
[ 0.036000] [<c0409c80>] ? add_nops+0x90/0xa0
[ 0.036000] [<c040a054>] apply_alternatives+0x274/0x630

Chuck decoded:

" 0: 8d 90 90 83 04 24 lea 0x24048390(%eax),%edx
6: 80 fc 0f cmp $0xf,%ah
9: a8 0f test $0xf,%al
>> b: a0 06 1e 50 55 mov 0x55501e06,%al
10: 57 push %edi
11: 56 push %esi

Interrupt 0x30 occurred while the alternatives code was replacing the
initial 0x90,0x90,0x90 NOPs (from the ASM_CLAC macro) with the
optimized version, 0x8d,0x76,0x00. Only the first byte has been
replaced so far, and it makes a mess out of the insn decoding."

optimize_nops() is buggy in two aspects:

- It's not disabling interrupts across the modification
- It's lacking a sync_core() call

Add both.

Fixes: 4fd4b6e5537c 'x86/alternatives: Use optimized NOPs for padding'
Reported-and-tested-by: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1509031232340.15006@nanos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
---
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
index c42827e..25f9093 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -338,10 +338,15 @@ done:

static void __init_or_module optimize_nops(struct alt_instr *a, u8 *instr)
{
+ unsigned long flags;
+
if (instr[0] != 0x90)
return;

+ local_irq_save(flags);
add_nops(instr + (a->instrlen - a->padlen), a->padlen);
+ sync_core();
+ local_irq_restore(flags);

DUMP_BYTES(instr, a->instrlen, "%p: [%d:%d) optimized NOPs: ",
instr, a->instrlen - a->padlen, a->padlen);

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