x86/alternatives: Fix optimize_nops() checking
authorBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Wed, 10 Jan 2018 11:28:16 +0000 (12:28 +0100)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Mon, 19 Mar 2018 18:58:30 +0000 (18:58 +0000)
commit 612e8e9350fd19cae6900cf36ea0c6892d1a0dca upstream.

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
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c

index 5f667f2..5291a0e 100644 (file)
@@ -324,9 +324,12 @@ done:
 static void __init_or_module 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);