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Subject[PATCH 3.16 13/76] x86/alternatives: Guard NOPs optimization
3.16.56-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>

commit 69df353ff305805fc16082d0c5bfa6e20fa8b863 upstream.

Take a look at the first instruction byte before optimizing the NOP -
there might be something else there already, like the ALTERNATIVE_2()
in rdtsc_barrier() which NOPs out on AMD even though we just
patched in an MFENCE.

This happens because the alternatives sees X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC,
AMD CPUs set it, we patch in the MFENCE and right afterwards it sees
X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC which AMD CPUs don't set and we blindly
optimize the NOP.

Checking whether at least the first byte is 0x90 prevents that.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428181662-18020-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -325,6 +325,9 @@ done:

static void __init_or_module optimize_nops(struct alt_instr *a, u8 *instr)
{
+ if (instr[0] != 0x90)
+ return;
+
add_nops(instr + (a->instrlen - a->padlen), a->padlen);

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